UNITED STATES, Appellant,
v.
Kevin E. PORTER, Appellee.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued June 30, 1992.
Decided December 22, 1992.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Henry K. Kopel, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and John R. Fisher, Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., Patricia A. Riley, and Wanda G. Bryant, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, DC, were on the briefs, for appellant.
Ronald A. Goodbread, Alexandria, VA, appointed by this court, for appellee.
David Reiser, with whom James Klein, Elizabeth G. Taylor, Rosemary Herbert, and Janet C. Hoeffel, Washington, DC, were on the briefs, for Public Defender Service, amicus curiae.
Before STEADMAN and SCHWELB, Associate Judges, and MACK, Senior Judge.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
SCHWELB, Associate Judge:
This appeal presents our court for the first time with the question whether "DNA" profiling evidence is admissible to corroborate the identification of a defendant in a criminal case. Provided that, as we anticipate, certain limited questions are successfully resolved on remand, the proponents of a technology which we view as a potentially valuable tool in the search for the truth carry the day....
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