Supreme Court of Connecticut· 8/23/1994

State v. Sivri

Citations

231 Conn. 115
646 A.2d 169
1994 Conn. LEXIS 289

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finding interim ceiling principle to be admissible, but remanding for additional hearings
explaining that calculation of rarity of match generates a ratio which accom- panies a match in order to express the statistical likelihood that an unrelated individual chosen at random from a particular population could have the same DNA profile as the suspect . . .
consciousness of guilt can be proven by ‘‘use of aliases upon [defendant’s] return to the United States’’
restriction fragment length polymorphism procedure as part of DNA analysis “generally accepted in the scientific community”
destruction of murder evidence indicates con- sciousness of guilt, ‘‘from which a jury may draw an inference of an intent to kill’’
“the jury’s function is to draw whatever inferences from the evidence or facts established by the evidence it deems to be reasonable and logical” [internal quotation marks omitted]

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Judges: Berdon, Borden, Peters

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