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DEFENSE COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN FAILING TO REQUEST A FRYE HEARING CONCERNING A COMPUTER PROGRAM USED TO INTERPRET MIXED DNA SAMPLES, APPEAL HELD IN ABEYANCE AND MATTER REMITTED FOR A HEARING (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department determined defense counsel was ineffective in failing to request a Frye hearing concerning a computer program, the TrueAllele Caaswork system, used to interpret mixed DNA samples. The appeal was held in abeyance and the matter remitted for the hearing:

​Defendant asserts that his trial counsel should have challenged, by way of a Frye hearing, the reliability of the TrueAllele Casework system, the proprietary “computer program that use[d] mathematics and statistics to interpret” the electronic data generated from the DNA mixtures taken from the lavender gloves and determine the statistical probability of a match between defendant’s DNA and that found on the inside of the gloves. A Frye hearing ascertains the reliability of “novel scientific evidence” by determining “whether the accepted techniques, when properly performed, generate results accepted as reliable within the scientific community generally”… . At the time of defendant’s pretrial proceedings in 2014, there were no reported trial court or appellate court decisions in this state establishing that the reliability of the TrueAllele Casework system had been assessed through a Frye hearing or that any court in the state had otherwise accepted expert testimony regarding that proprietary computer program… . Given these circumstances, we do not find that it would have been futile for defense counsel to have requested a Frye hearing to challenge the reliability of the TrueAllele Casework system or that such an application would have had little or no likelihood of success … . People v Wilson, 2018 NY Slip Op 05715, Third Dept 8-9-18

CRIMINAL LAW (DNA, FRYE HEARING, INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE, DEFENSE COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN FAILING TO REQUEST A FRYE HEARING CONCERNING A COMPUTER PROGRAM USED TO INTERPRET MIXED DNA SAMPLES, APPEAL HELD IN ABEYANCE AND MATTER REMITTED FOR A HEARING (THIRD DEPT))/EVIDENCE (CRIMINAL LAW, DNA, FRYE HEARING, INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE, DEFENSE COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN FAILING TO REQUEST A FRYE HEARING CONCERNING A COMPUTER PROGRAM USED TO INTERPRET MIXED DNA SAMPLES, APPEAL HELD IN ABEYANCE AND MATTER REMITTED FOR A HEARING (THIRD DEPT))/APPEALS (CRIMINAL LAW, DNA, FRYE HEARING, INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE, DEFENSE COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN FAILING TO REQUEST A FRYE HEARING CONCERNING A COMPUTER PROGRAM USED TO INTERPRET MIXED DNA SAMPLES, APPEAL HELD IN ABEYANCE AND MATTER REMITTED FOR A HEARING (THIRD DEPT))/DNA (CRIMINAL LAW, FRYE HEARING, INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE, DEFENSE COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN FAILING TO REQUEST A FRYE HEARING CONCERNING A COMPUTER PROGRAM USED TO INTERPRET MIXED DNA SAMPLES, APPEAL HELD IN ABEYANCE AND MATTER REMITTED FOR A HEARING (THIRD DEPT))/FRYE HEARING (CRIMINAL LAW, DNA, INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE, DEFENSE COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN FAILING TO REQUEST A FRYE HEARING CONCERNING A COMPUTER PROGRAM USED TO INTERPRET MIXED DNA SAMPLES, APPEAL HELD IN ABEYANCE AND MATTER REMITTED FOR A HEARING (THIRD DEPT))/TRUEALLELE CASEWORK SYSTEM (CRIMINAL LAW, DNA, FRYE HEARING, INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE, DEFENSE COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN FAILING TO REQUEST A FRYE HEARING CONCERNING A COMPUTER PROGRAM USED TO INTERPRET MIXED DNA SAMPLES, APPEAL HELD IN ABEYANCE AND MATTER REMITTED FOR A HEARING (THIRD DEPT))/ATTORNEYS (CRIMINAL LAW, DNA, FRYE HEARING, INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE, DEFENSE COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN FAILING TO REQUEST A FRYE HEARING CONCERNING A COMPUTER PROGRAM USED TO INTERPRET MIXED DNA SAMPLES, APPEAL HELD IN ABEYANCE AND MATTER REMITTED FOR A HEARING (THIRD DEPT))/INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE (DNA, FRYE HEARING, INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE, DEFENSE COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN FAILING TO REQUEST A FRYE HEARING CONCERNING A COMPUTER PROGRAM USED TO INTERPRET MIXED DNA SAMPLES, APPEAL HELD IN ABEYANCE AND MATTER REMITTED FOR A HEARING (THIRD DEPT))/APPEALS (CRIMINAL LAW, FRYE HEARING, INEFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE, DEFENSE COUNSEL WAS INEFFECTIVE IN FAILING TO REQUEST A FRYE HEARING CONCERNING A COMPUTER PROGRAM USED TO INTERPRET MIXED DNA SAMPLES, APPEAL HELD IN ABEYANCE AND MATTER REMITTED FOR A HEARING (THIRD DEPT))

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