Illinois Appellate Court
Criminal Court
Expert Witnesses
(Modified upon denial of rehearing 1/31/13.) Defendant was convicted of residential burglary. Court properly admitted testimony of fingerprint expert, as he laid a sufficient foundation that prints recovered from crime scene matched Defendant's palm prints, in detailing the analysis process he specifically used in this case and was able to determine there was a match. There is no requirement for a set number of minimum points of similarity for fingerprint expert testimony to be admissible. Court properly allowed DNA expert to testify as to report analyzing Defendant's DNA, even though he was not the person who performed the analysis; report is not testimonial in nature and thus does not violate confrontation clause.(LAVIN, concurring; EPSTEIN, specially concurring.)