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People v. Wesley

Citations

  • 140 Misc. 2d 306
  • 533 N.Y.S.2d 643
  • 1988 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 535

How courts have described this case

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  • reducing “overall claimed mean power of identity . . . to eliminate any possible Hardy-Weinberg disequilibrium”
  • finding DNA typing generally acceptable and allowing extraction of blood samples to conduct DNA testing
  • finding DNA typing generally acceptable and allowing extraction of blood samples to conduct DNA testing
  • expert believes that there is population substructuring but that this could be accounted for by adjusting the claimed power of identity of Cellmark test by a factor of ten to one in 140,000,000 for Caucasians and one in 84,000,000 for blacks
  • scientific bases of DNA/RFLP testing

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Judges: Harris

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