THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent, v SEAN SPROSTA, Appellant.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
[853 NYS2d 625]
At trial, the People offered into evidence the case files from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of New York City (hereinafter OCME) which contained the results of DNA testing of samples taken from the victim and the defendant. The files contained reports from an independent laboratory which, under contract with OCME, had performed the tests on the samples taken from the victim. An analyst employed by OCME developed the male and female DNA profiles from the raw data provided by the independent laboratory and entered the male profile into a national database, resulting in a match with the defendant‘s DNA on file in the database. Additionally, the same OCME analyst conducted the testing on a blood sample taken from the defendant after his arrest.
The People offered the OCME files and a chart containing a summary of the analysis in those files through the testimony of