STATE v. THOMPSON

No. 2002-239.

149 N.H. 565 (2003)

THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE v. DWAYNE THOMPSON

Supreme Court of New Hampshire.

Opinion Issued: June 9, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter W. Heed, attorney general (Brian M. Quirk, senior assistant attorney general, and James D. Rosenberg, assistant attorney general, on the brief, and Mr. Quirk and Michael A. Delaney, senior assistant attorney general, orally), for the State.

Landya McCafferty, assistant appellate defender, of Concord, on the brief, and Ms. McCafferty and David M. Rothstein, deputy chief appellate defender, of Concord, orally, for the defendant.


DALIANIS, J.

The defendant, Dwayne Thompson, was convicted of firstdegree murder. See RSA 630:1-a (1999). On appeal, he argues that the Superior Court (McGuire, J.) erred by: 1) ruling that polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based short tandem repeat (STR) DNA profiling is a generally accepted method of DNA testing; and 2) denying him a pretrial evidentiary hearing regarding the admissibility of PCR based amplitype PM+DQA1 DNA testing. We affirm.

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