Opinion
No. 98-KK-2586
December 11, 1998
IN RE: Langlois, Donald; — Defendant(s); Applying for Supervisory and/or Remedial Writs; Parish of Orleans Criminal District Court Div. "A" Number 335-844; to the Court of Appeal, Fourth Circuit, Number 98KW-1046
Granted. The trial court erred in limiting the pretrial hearing to whether the state laid a foundation for the introduction of the DNA evidence. The case is remanded to the trial court with an order to hold a pretrial hearing on the reliability and relevance of the DNA evidence to the facts at issue. State v. Foret, 628 So.2d 1116 (La. 1993); State v. Quatrevingt, 93-1644 (La. 3/29/96), 670 So.2d 197, 204; State v. Charles, 617 So.2d 895, 896 (La. 1993) (per curiam); Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharm., Inc. 509 U.S. 579 (1993).
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CALOGERO, C.J. not on panel.