In reversing robbery conviction, CT Supreme Court may be first in nation to rule on sufficiency of DNA evidence in ‘John Doe’ arrest warrants

In its decision, the court overturned the convictions of a Norwalk man, Terrence Police, for shooting and robbing a woman in a grocery store parking lot in 2012. The court concluded that detectives based their arrest warrant on genetic crime scene evidence that was not of sufficient quality to allow analysts to determine Police’s unique DNA profile or develop a statistical probability that he was the likely robber.