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People v. Castro (1989)

New York Supreme Court case in which early RFLP DNA evidence was excluded under the Frye standard because the specific testing procedures used by Lifecodes Corporation, and their statistical calculations, had not achieved general acceptance. A landmark in establishing quality standards for forensic DNA.

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