Former Adelaide resident Lisa Cunningham has been ordered by a US court to hand over her DNA to prosecutors who allege she murdered her young stepdaughter.
An Australian woman has been ordered by a US court to hand over her DNA to prosecutors who allege she murdered her young stepdaughter.The couple will be back in court on May 20Lisa Cunningham faces the death penalty in Phoenix, Arizona
, after being charged with the first-degree murder and neglect of seven-year-old stepdaughter Sanaa, who died in February, 2017. The 44-year-old's husband, Germayne Cunningham — a former police detective and the father of Sanaa — is also charged with her murder.Overnight, they appeared in the Maricopa County Court, which ordered the couple provide prosecutors with DNA, despite their objection to the application.
The court was told prosecutors had planned to have the case agent at court to obtain the DNA evidence from the accused, but he was involved in a car crash on the way to court. "He's trying to send someone else from the Goodyear Police Department in case the court does grant our request to obtain a buccal [oral] swab," prosecutors said."If not, Your Honour, and assuming you grant our request, we'll have to coordinate with defence counsel in order to take that sample.""I am going to grant the motion to take the sample," Judge Kemp said.
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