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Ivey v. Commonwealth
Citation:
486 S.W.3d 846 (Ky. 2016)Facts
Alfred Ivey (Appellant) was convicted of two counts of rape of a minor. The crime resulted in a child, and a DNA paternity test was used as evidence against Ivey. On appeal, he alleged that the trial court erred in allowing the expert witness to testify about the probability of Ivey’s paternity based on an improper statistical method. To conduct and analyze the paternity test, the examiner calculated a paternity index using Ivey’s DNA, which measured the likelihood that a union between Ivey and the child’s biological mother would produce a child with the child’s DNA markers. Ivey’s paternity index indicated that he was 11,900,000 times more likely to be the father than a randomly selected male. Ivey argued that this was not sufficiently reliable.
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