People v. Cella

In People v. Cella (1983) 139 Cal.App.3d 391, the defendant tried to invalidate a search with testimony from a mathematician who testified that there was only a 2 or 3 chance in 100,000 that the names of certain corporations would appear on two different lists in the same order. (Id. at pp. 403-404.) The appellate court rejected the argument as follows: "There could be any number of reasons, not quantified by the mathematician, why 10 corporate names would appear twice in the same order. Our duty does not include speculation as to the quality of proof to be gained from misapplied statistics." (Id. at p. 405.)