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STATE v. BROWN

No. 89-1254.

470 N.W.2d 30 (1991)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Gary Dean BROWN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

May 15, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda Del Gallo, State Appellate Defender, and B. John Burns, Asst. Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Bonnie J. Campbell, Attorney General, Sheryl A. Soich, Asst. Atty. Gen., John P. Sarcone, County Attorney, and Nan M. Horvat, Asst. County Atty., for appellee.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and LARSON, SCHULTZ, NEUMAN, and SNELL, JJ.

LARSON, Justice.

Gary Dean Brown was convicted of first-degree murder, Iowa Code §§ 707.1 and 707.2 (1989), and second-degree theft, Iowa Code §§ 714.1(1) and 714.2(2). The convictions were based in part on scientific evidence of DNA "fingerprinting" which linked Brown to seminal fluid found in the body of the victim. Brown contends that the reliability of this procedure was not sufficiently established and that evidence of the mathematical probability...

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