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COMMONWEALTH v. MATTEI

SJC-10390.

455 Mass. 840 (2010)

COMMONWEALTH v. ALEXANDER MATTEI.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

February 1, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bonny M. Gilbert for the defendant.

Catherine Langevin Semel, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Dana Alan Curhan, for Committee for Public Counsel Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, CORDY, BOTSFORD, & GANTS, JJ.

MARSHALL, C.J.

We granted the defendant's application for further appellate review to consider his claim that the trial judge committed reversible error by admitting expert testimony that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) tests could not exclude the defendant as the source of DNA taken from the scene of the crime without accompanying testimony explaining the statistical import of those results.1 The defendant also claims that there was insufficient...

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