Little v. Streater

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• holding that states must pay for blood grouping tests sought by an indigent defendant to enable him to contest a paternity suit
• concluding that a Connecticut statute requiring costs of blood testing in paternity actions be borne by the party requesting them violated due process when applied to indigent defendants
• holding that a statute which provided cost of blood grouping tests be paid by the party requesting them denied due process when applied to deny the tests to an indigent defendant in a quasi-criminal paternity action
• finding that state must pay for blood grouping tests sought by indigent defendant contesting a paternity suit
• holding an indigent defendant in a paternity proceeding brought by the state has a Fourteenth Amendment due process right to receive blood grouping tests to establish paternity for newborn child
• stating that an indigent paternity defendant is constitutionally entitled to have the state pay the cost for blood-type analysis when there is a question of paternity

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