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COMMONWEALTH v. LANIGAN

419 Mass. 15 (1994)

COMMONWEALTH vs. THOMAS J. LANIGAN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

November 18, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William C. McPhee (Dolores E. O'Neill with him) for the defendant.

Stephanie Martin Glennon, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

In Commonwealth v. Lanigan, 413 Mass. 154 (1992) (Lanigan I), this court upheld a pretrial ruling that had excluded the admission of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) test results that showed a match between the defendant's DNA and DNA found on the clothes of one of the victims. We did so because it did not appear that the process that the Commonwealth used for estimating the frequency with which the defendant...

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