CAPRIO v. COM.

Record No. 962090.

493 S.E.2d 371 (1997)

Harry Stephen CAPRIO v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

October 31, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Wayne Sprinkle (Robert S. Ricks, on brief), Portsmouth, for appellant.

Daniel J. Munroe, Assistant Attorney General (Richard Cullen, Attorney General; Marla Graff Decker, Assistant Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., COMPTON, LACY, HASSELL, KEENAN, and KINSER, JJ., and POFF, Senior Justice.


POFF, Senior Justice.

The dispositive issue framed in this appeal is whether the Court of Appeals of Virginia erred in upholding the trial court's ruling denying the appellant's motion for a continuance and allowing the Commonwealth to introduce the testimony of an expert concerning his extrapolation of blood profile frequency based upon his analysis of a series of DNA profiles and reports.

On March 5, 1992, Harry Stephen Caprio was indicted for the murder...

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