People v. Belle

In People v. Belle, 47 Misc 3d 1218[A], 16 N.Y.S.3d 793, 2015 NY Slip Op 50663[U][Sup. Ct. Bronx Co. 2015](Fabrizio, J.), the court found that the Legal Aid Society's use of the same mathematical formulas as FST to calculate a likelihood ratio somewhat more favorable to the defense than that calculated by the FST, while still showing that the likelihood that DNA found on a gun was that of the defendant, did not affect general acceptance of FST as reliable in the forensic scientific community. (People v. Belle, supra, at 2).