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PEOPLE v. NELSON

No. C047366.

48 Cal.Rptr.3d 399 (2006)

The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Dennis Louis NELSON, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeal of California, Third District.

August 31, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cara DeVito, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Robert R. Anderson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary Jo Graves, Senior Assistant Attorney General, J. Robert Jibson and Judy Kaida, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

CERTIFIED FOR PARTIAL PUBLICATION.*

SCOTLAND, P.J.

In this case, we confront issues arising from the use of the state's convicted offender deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) databank to solve a murder that occurred many years earlier. The victim was abducted, raped, and murdered in 1976. In 2002, a DNA profile derived from crime scene evidence was searched through the DNA databank. Defendant...

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