United States v. Trala

How courts have described this case

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• finding that PCR/STR profiling is generally accepted in the scientific community
• applying Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharms., Inc., 509 U.S. 579, 113 S. Ct. 2786, 125 L. Ed. 2d 469 (1993)
• defendant’s challenges to FBI laboratory’s testing methodology involving stutters, allelic dropout and the ability to analyze mixed samples are directed to the weight of the evidence and not its admissibility
• FBI’s PCR/STR methodology has low to zero error rate, and controls are followed
• PCR method is predominant DNA typing method

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).