Bryan Kohberger's defense argues police used flawed DNA science to ID him in Idaho college murders
"This is a situation where this identification was done in complete secret behind closed doors," said Kohberger's lead defense attorney, Anne Taylor.
"There are two references to not remembering. And a couple of days later in the third interview, there are references to not remembering, being drunk," she said. "A statement, 'I don't know any of it, like half this stuff I don't know if it was a dream or if it's real.' And credibility is really, really important when this person was relied on in the investigation.
"Investigative genetic genealogy, or IGG, is the process by which law enforcement will take a sample of DNA and initially probably run it through what's called CODIS, a federal criminal database. But if there's no hit there, then law enforcement can take that DNA to a genetic genealogy database and see if they can take information from that database to see if that sample is related to someone," explained ABC News legal contributor Brian Buckmire.
"An individual has no expectation of privacy as to what they throw into the trash, and so law enforcement wouldn't need to get a warrant to check what they call as an abandonment sample," Buckmire explained.
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