Section 10.35 Correct Scientific Community

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c. (§10.35) Correct Scientific Community

In State v. Faulkner, 103 S.W.3d 346 (Mo. App. S.D. 2003), the challenge was not to the STR-DNA test itself, but to the fact that “the trial court incorrectly identified the applicable [scientific] community” as the forensic science community. Id. at 357–58. The defendant argued that the appropriate communities for DNA typing were molecular biology and chemistry. When setting out the Frye v. United States, 293 F. 1013 (D.C. Cir. 1923), test in State v. Davis,814...