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1179 Letter from DPP, 24 March 2005.
1180 R v MSK and MAK, unreported, Supreme Court 070201/03 and 070002/03. The appeal case was reported at [2004] NSWCCA 308, but
the DNA evidence was not raised on appeal.
1181 R v Fricker, unreported, Distict Court 03/51/0165 and advice from DPP 24 March 2005.
1182 R v Styman and Tauber, unreported, Supreme Court 02/91/0020 and advice from DPP, 24 March 2005.
1183 R v Styman and Tauber, unreported, Supreme Court 02/91/0020, transcript 4 December 2002 at p. 130.
1184 Known as Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. See D Balding, Weight-of-evidence for Forensic DNA Profiles (2005) p. 69.
1185 R v Wakefield [2004] NSWCCA 288 at paragraph 36 (Smart AJ).
1186 R v Yates, Parry, Hyland, Powick [2002] NSWCCA 520 at paragraph 65 (Wood CJ at CL, Hulme and Buddin JJ).
1187 D Balding, Weight-of-evidence for Forensic DNA Profiles (2005) p. 32.
1188 Applied Biosystem, Product Bulletin Human Identification located at http://docs.appliedbiosystems.com/pebiodocs/00112873.pdf,
accessed on 7 December 2005.
1189 United Kingdom Forensic Science Service, The National DNA Database Annual Report 2002-03, p. 5 and the “Current DNA techniques”
page of the New Zealand Environmental Science and Research Limited website http://www.esr.cri.nz/competencies/forensicscience/
dna/currenttechniques.htm accessed on 7 December 2005.
1190 Mark Findlay, Independent review of the Crimes (Forensic Procedures) Act 2000 (April 2003) at 6-7-2.
1191 See R v Bropho [2004] WADC 182.
1192 The DNA evidence was challenged again at the retrial, but the accused was ultimately convicted. See R v Pantoja (1996) 88 A Crim R
554 and R v Pantoja [1998] NSWSC 656.
1193 R v To [2002] NSWCCA 247. The relevance of ethnic background was also discussed in R v Pantoja (1996) 88 A Crim R 554.
1194 R v Bropho [2004] WADC 182.
1195 R v Lisoff [1999] NSWCCA 364 at paragraph 55 and 64.
1196 R v GK [2001] NSWCCA 413 at paragraph 96.
1197 R v GK [2001] NSWCCA 413 at paragraphs 30 and 39.
1198 R v Galli [2001] NSWCCA 504.
1199 R v Yates, Parry, Hyland, Powick [2002] NSWCCA 520.
1200 R v Wakefield 2004] NSWCCA 288.
1201 See R v Milat (unreported) NSWSC, No. 70114 of 1994: Statistical Validity of Databases, 22 April 1996 (Hunt CJ at CL) and R v Galli
[2001] NSWCCA 504.
1202 R v Styman and Tauber, unreported, Supreme Court 02/91/0020, transcript 4 December 2002, p. 130.
1203 D Balding, Weight-of-evidence for Forensic DNA Profiles (2005) p. 146.
1204 See R v GK [2001] NSWCCA 413 at paragraphs 33, 34 and 59.
1205 See R v Galli [2001] NSWCCA 504 at paragraphs 79 to 97.
1206 R v Keir [2002] NSWCCA 30.
1207 R v Yates, Parry, Hyland, Powick [2002] NSWCCA 520 at paragraph 156.
1208 R v Wakefield [2004] NSWCCA 288.
1209 “Falconio defence questions DNA ‘evidence’”, Sydney Morning Herald, 25 November 2005.
1210 “Forensic experts at odds over evidence”, Sydney Morning Herald, 2 December 2005.
1211 DNAResource Report dated 10 June 2005.
1212 Confidential survey response.
1213 Confidential survey response.
1214 Confidential LAC survey response.
1215 R v Sing [2002] NSWCCA 20 at paragraph 38. See also R v Ryan {2002] VSCA 176.
1216 Minutes of the DNA Advisory Committee, 6 August 2004.
1217 COPS download data provided by FPIT on 15 July 2005.
1218 Information supplied by FPIT on 22 June 2005.
1219 Eight procedures were conducted on volunteers and the remaining five were conducted on victims, and were initially included in our
audit sample because police records indicated they were volunteers.
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