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DNA expert to testify in case of impregnated Rota minor
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Posted on Nov 16 2011
By Ferdie de la Torre
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The U.S. government will present the testimony of a Texas-based doctor in connection with the criminal case filed against Melvin David Diaz, a Guam resident who is facing charges of impregnating a minor girl on Rota.
Assistant U.S. attorney Clyde Lemons Jr. filed on Monday in the U.S. District Court for the NMI a notice of intent to use the testimony of Dr. Wayne L. Hoffman.
Hoffman is manager and associate laboratory director at Orchid Cellmark, Inc. Dallas Laboratory, Farmers Branch, Texas.
Lemons said that Orchid Cellmark Inc. is accredited to do DNA testing in paternity and other types of relationship testing.
Lemons said that Hoffman will testify about his findings from the DNA testing done on the victim, her infant, and Diaz and ”the probability of defendant being the father of the minor victim’s infant.”
The 49-year-old Diaz is charged with three counts of enticement of a minor and one count of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
Diaz allegedly traveled from Guam to the CNMI between Aug. 1, 2010 and Sept. 30, 2010, for the purpose of engaging in illicit sex with the minor.
