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YOUNG v. STATE

No. 99, September Term, 2004.

879 A.2d 44 (2005)

388 Md. 99

Anthony Eugene YOUNG v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 19, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter F. Rose, Asst. Public Defender (Nancy S. Forster, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for Petitioner.

Shannon E. Avery, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen. of Maryland, on brief), Baltimore, for Respondent.

Argued Before: BELL, C.J., RAKER, WILNER, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE and JOHN C. ELDRIDGE (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.

RAKER, Judge.

The primary issue we address in this appeal is whether the trial court erred in admitting evidence that there was a DNA "match" in the absence of accompanying statistical evidence. We conclude that the court did not err and hold that when a DNA method analyzes genetic markers at sufficient locations to arrive at an infinitesimal random match probability, expert opinion testimony of a match and of the source of...

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