Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Cross-Examination
(Court opinion corrected 4/10/12.) Criminal defendant, who was prosecuted almost entirely on basis of cold-case DNA match, made pretrial motion for DNA database search. Court abused its discretion by denying Defendant's motion to order ISP to conduct a nine-loci database search. Court abused discretion by barring defense from asking State's DNA expert any questions about Arizona study, thus limiting defense's opportunity to cross-examine. (J. GORDON, concurring; McBRIDE, dissenting.)