Whack v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
3
states following
April 2021
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Herring v. New York · District Attorney's Office for the Third Judicial District v. Osborne · Wilhelm v. State · Degren v. State · 133 S. Ct. 1958 - Maryland v. King
Most-quoted passages
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“focuses on repeated DNA sequences scattered through the human genome, known as short tandem repeats (STRs). The alternative possibilities for the size and frequency of these STRs at any given point along a strand of DNA are known as alleles, and multiple alleles are analyzed in order to ensure that a DNA profile matches only one individual.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Diggs v. State
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