STATE v. LEWIS

No. 95-K-0209.

654 So.2d 761 (1995)

STATE of Louisiana v. Darnell LEWIS.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

April 13, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Deborah Villio Kettenring, David Paul Wolff, Karen Kirshbom Herman, Asst. Dist. Atty., New Orleans, for relator.

Pauline Fransen Hardin, M. Richard Schroeder, Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, for respondent.

Before BARRY, PLOTKIN and WALTZER, JJ.


WALTZER, Judge.

We are called upon to review the ruling of the trial court denying expert status to Ms. Anne H. Montgomery, who presented herself to the court as an expert in molecular biology and DNA analysis.

PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

An Orleans Parish Grand Jury indicted Darnell Lewis with numerous crimes, including, inter alia, nine (9) counts of aggravated rape, violations of La.R.S. 14:42. The prosecution attempted to introduce...

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