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- Title: Deborah J. Phillips and State Utah V.
- Author : Court of Appeals of Utah
- Release Date : January 22, 1980
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
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STEWART, Justice: Plaintiffs initiated this lawsuit to establish defendants paternity of a child born out of wedlock to plaintiff Phillips and to compel defendant to support the child. The case was tried to a court sitting without a jury. The court found the defendant to be the father and ordered support payments to be paid. The central issue on this appeal is whether the trial court erred in admitting the results of a relatively new scientific test known as the HLA (Human Leucocyte Antigen) test which purportedly proved the defendant to be the father of the child in this case to a 97% degree of probability. Defendant in addition contends that the trial courts finding of paternity was contrary to the weight of the evidence and that the cumulative effect of the trial courts evidentiary rulings constituted reversible error.