California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Merino, A125104, San Francisco County Super. Ct. No. 198020 (Cal. App. 2011):
2. The court acknowledged that, because law enforcement initially requested the DNA reports, it was reasonable to expect at the time the reports were prepared that they could later be used at a criminal trial. (People v. Geier, supra, 41 Cal.4th at p. 605.)
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