Los Angeles County (Los Angeles) Superior Court
By Pat Alston
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - Marshall Rieger was prosecuting dead-beat dads in the county during the early 1990s when he pushed for a hearing to determine the admissibility in paternity cases of an extraordinary new scientific technology: genetic fingerprinting.
"We wanted to get a ruling that DNA evidence would be admissible for parentage," said Rieger, now a Superior Court commissioner.
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