State v. Westrom (2024) Opinion – Supreme Court of Minnesota
FindLaw | May 8, 2024
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:
exclusion of alternativeperpetrator evidence,
exclusion of the defendant’s forensic podiatry evidence,
the state’s closing argument was not improper, and
circumstantial evidence was sufficient for conviction.