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U.S. v. JENKINS

No. 05-CO-333.

887 A.2d 1013 (2005)

UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Raymond A. JENKINS, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 15, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Valinda Jones, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Kenneth L. Wainstein, United States Attorney, John R. Fisher, Assistant United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, and Roy W. McLesse III and Michael T. Ambrosino, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellant.

Andrea Roth, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein, Public Defender Service, was on the brief, for appellee.

Before WASHINGTON, Chief Judge, KRAMER, Associate Judge, and BELSON, Senior Judge.

WASHINGTON, Chief Judge:

The United States ("government") appeals from the pre-trial order denying the introduction of DNA evidence against appellee Raymond A. Jenkins. The government challenges the trial court's determination that the methodology for calculating the statistical significance of a DNA match obtained through a database search — a "cold hit" — has not gained general acceptance in the relevant...

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