United States v. John Ray Bonds (91-3610) Mark Verdi (91-3609) and Steven Wayne Yee (91-3608)

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that the relevance inquiry asks whether the evidence relates to “any issue in the case”
• allowing FBI DNA profiling evidence although the “deficiencies in calculating the rate of error and the failure to conduct extensive blind proficiency tests are troubling.”
• “hold[ing] to a straightforward, easy-to-administer rule in 13 accord with Lapides: Removal waives Eleventh Amendment immunity”
• considering the failure of the FBI to account for the “ethnic substructure” of the DNA pattern as a matter of weight not admissibility
• striking an NRC report on DNA from appellate brief as it was not available to lower court
• allowing overtly probabilistic evidence concerning DNA profiles to be submitted to 8 the jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).