and 9:00 a.m. on February 15, 1994 when she saw a glove near the curb outside of her house. She picked up the glove and placed it on her back porch, intending to throw it in the trash later. On the morning of February 16, 1994, after learning about the murders and talking with her son, she decided to call the police. 4 . In 1994, Bobby Burnett lived at 812 Maryland Avenue in Hagerstown. On February 17, 1994, he was walking along Spruce Street to pick up his children from the babysitter when he noticed the handle of a knife sticking out of the snow. He kicked it, but did not otherwise touch it. 5 . Accordingly, mtDNA analysis can be used on material without a nucleus, such as a bone sample or a piece of hair without a root segment. It can also be used on unknown samples t.Ct.App.2003) (<HOLDING>); People v. Ko, 304 A.D.2d 451, 757 N.Y.S.2d
holding use of mtdna analysis to prove identity satisfied frye test for admissibility of new or novel scientific evidence holding mtdna testing sufficiently reliable to warrant its admissibility into evidence holding that the frye test of general acceptance in the scientific community was superceded by the federal rules holding trial court properly admitted evidence of mtdna analysis without first holding a hearing to establish reliability holding that frye test for admissibility was satisfied because expert used likelihood ratios to explain results of dna tests conducted on known mixed samples