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Idaho Supreme Court· 12/19/1995

State v. Faught

Citations

  • 908 P.2d 566
  • 127 Idaho 873
  • 1995 Ida. LEXIS 163

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  • holding sufficiency need not be objected to in the trial court to be preserved for appellate review
  • a criminal defendant can raise the insufficiency of the evidence on appeal even though the defendant did not move for a judgment of acquittal at the close of the State’s ease
  • admission of expert opinion testimony linking defendant to crime based upon DNA evidence was upheld where witness was qualified as an expert witness in the field and the statistical base used in determining the frequency of a random DNA match was scientifically reliable
  • “The evidence in this case of Faught’s guilt is overwhelming.”

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Judges: Schroeder, McDevitt, Johnson, Trout, Silak

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