Sutter v. Dane Investments, Inc.

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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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