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TESTIMONY OF DNA EXPERT, WHICH WAS BASED ON DATA COLLECTED BY NON-TESTIFYING WITNESSES, DID NOT VIOLATE DEFENDANT’S RIGHT OF CONFRONTATION; ILLEGAL STOP DID NOT REQUIRE SUPPRESSION OF STATEMENT, SUFFICIENT ATTENUATION.

The Third Department, in affirming defendant’s conviction, determined the testimony of the DNA expert (Pasqualino) did not violate defendant’s right of confrontation. Although the expert relied on data collected by non-testifying witnesses, the conclusions drawn from the data were entirely her own. In addition, the Third Department determined the concededly illegal stop of the defendant did not require suppression of his statement because the statement was sufficiently attentuated from the stop. An officer illegally stopped the defendant to tell him the police wanted to speak to him. The defendant  then drove to the station where he was read his Miranda rights. With respect to the DNA evidence, the court wrote:

Pasqualino testified that she analyzed raw data compiled by the nontestifying lab technicians and that she did not rely on the opinions or interpretation of anyone else in forming her scientific conclusions linking defendant’s DNA profile to the victim’s rape kit, which conclusions were contained in the reports that she authored… . * * *

There is no evidence in the record that any lab technician or analyst who participated in the preliminary processing and testing of this DNA evidence engaged in any data editing, analysis, comparisons or interpretations of the evidence or rendered any opinions regarding whether the data collected from the rape kit matched defendant’s DNA profile; likewise, there is no proof that Pasqualino relied upon any such opinions or conclusions drawn by others … . Further, the technicians’ compilation of objective data was not accusatory and did not, without Pasqualino’s expert analysis and testimony, link defendant to these crimes … . Under these circumstances, defendant’s right of confrontation was not violated when Pasqualino relied upon and made reference to data collected by nontestifying lab technicians … . People v Stahl, 2016 NY Slip Op 05597, 3rd Dept 7-21-16

 

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