People v. Nelson

Supreme Court of California · Decided 2008-06-16

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Opinion CHIN, J. In 2002, investigators compared evidence from a 1976 murder scene with defendant’s deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) profile and identified defendant as a possible donor of that evidence. He was then tried for and convicted of that murder. The prosecution presented evidence that the odds that a random person unrelated to defendant from the population group that produced odds most favorable to him c…

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