At trial, the People's witnesses testified that scientific testing had shown that the DNA in blood evidence from the scene of the crime matched defendant's DNA. The blood evidence itself, however, was unavailable at trial because Hurricane Sandy (which had occurred less than a month earlier) had caused the flooding of the warehouse in which the evidence was stored.
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