STR testing, has been held to be a scientifically correct and reliable technique by a vast majority of courts in other jurisdictions.” Butterfield, 27 P.3d at 1143 (citing cases). The Colorado Supreme Court concluded in 2001: “The majority of courts in other jurisdictions that have considered the issue have held that DNA evidence derived from the PCR testing method satisfies the standards for admissibility under either Frye or Rule 702.” People v. Shreck, 22 P.3d 68, 79 (Colo.2001) (en banc) (citing cases). By 2003, additional cases observed that the majority of jurisdictions addressing the issue held that PCR/STR testing was scientifically rehable and admissible. State v. Whittey, 149 N.H. 463, 821 A.2d 1086, 1094 (2003); see State v. Traylor, 656 N.W.2d 885, 891, 900 (Minn.2003) (<HOLDING>). The Whittey court observed that “PCR-based
holding under the restrictive frye test that pcrstr testing is generally accepted in the relevant scientific community holding that the frye test of general acceptance in the scientific community was superceded by the federal rules holding that calculations done by applying product rule were generally accepted in relevant scientific community holding that product rule method of dna statistical evidence is now generally accepted in the relevant scientific community holding that expert opinion based on scientific technique is inadmissible unless technique is generally accepted as reliable in relevant scientific community