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• Title: Ex Parte Waylon Dwight Perry (Re Waylon
• Author : Supreme Court of Alabama
• Release Date : January 19, 1991
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 76 KB

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Waylon Dwight Perry was convicted of capital murder, and the trial court, accepting the jury's recommendation, sentenced Perry
to life imprisonment without parole. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the judgment of the trial court. Perry v. State,
[Ms. 8 Div. 301, March 16, 1990] 586 So.2d 236 (Ala. Cr.App. 1990). We granted certiorari review to address one issue: Whether
DNA evidence, which was used to identify Perry as the perpetrator of the crime, is admissible in Alabama. The Court of Criminal
Appeals held it admissible. ("DNA" stands for deoxyribonucleic acid. DNA exists in the nucleus of most cells of the body;
it is unique to the individual, except in the case of identical twins.) In July 1988 Bryce Wallace was strangled to death
in his house. When law enforcement officers investigated, they found bloodstains on Wallace's clothing and on the front doorknob
of Wallace's house. Those bloodstains were later analyzed with a procedure called "DNA print analysis" by Lifecodes Corporation
("Lifecodes"), a New York corporation that performs DNA tests in relation to criminal and paternity lawsuits. In October 1988 Perry was indicted for Wallace's murder, and in December 1988 he was tried for that offense. The record does
not indicate when Perry discovered that Lifecodes had performed the DNA print analysis. By the time the case went to trial,
however, Perry's lawyers apparently knew that the State might attempt to introduce that DNA evidence, because, when the State,
at the beginning of its case, requested that two Lifecodes scientists be allowed to testify out of order, Perry's lawyers
knew who they were and had a cross-examination prepared. Perry's trial lawyers never asked for a hearing outside the presence
of the jury to challenge the admissibility of the DNA evidence.

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