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In their ruling, the court held that the defendant in this homicide prosecution has no reasonable expectation of privacy in a discarded napkin which was retrieved by police and tested for DNA leading to a DNA profile that was associated with a DNA profile recovered from crime scene. Other issues addressed in this ruling include: 1) exclusion of alternative perpetrator evidence, 2) exclusion of the defendant’s forensic podiatry evidence, 3) the state’s closing argument was not improper, and 4) circumstantial evidence was sufficient for conviction.