Is there any evidence that a crime lab technician admitted on the stand to not following federal procedures when processing DNA samples?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Garner, C086567 (Cal. App. 2019):
Defendant asserts that a crime lab technician admitted on the stand to not following federal procedures when processing DNA samples. Defendant, however, provides no citation to the record, and we are left to speculate as to what he is referring. We therefore decline to address this contention. (See People v. Smith (2015) 61 Cal.4th
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