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 Providing jurors with proper context when the DNA profile match flows from a 'cold hit' in a database presents unique challenges. A cold hit is a person who is not a suspect in the case but became one from DNA at the crime scene. 

Many laypersons may try to analogize a cold hit DNA match to a match between a fingerprint recovered from a crime scene and one on file in a similar type of database. Fingerprint identification evidence is familiar to most people, and since the value of a fingerprint identification is not reduced by virtue of the utilization ...