The defendant in a hotly contested paternity case is challenging two DNA tests pegging him as the father, claiming that his infection with the human papilloma virus, or HPV, skewed the tests. Attorneys for both parties say this is the first time, to their knowledge, that DNA evidence has been contested on such a basis in a paternity suit in Connecticut, possibly the entire country.
March 29, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Jay Black has Ann Landers to thank for his unusual, if not unprecedented, challenge of two DNA tests pegging him as the father in a hotly contested paternity action.
Black, a retired civil and electrical engineer and the defendant in Waskewicz v. Black, says he had known that Karendale Waskewicz, the woman accusing him of fathering her child in 1995, allegedly suffered from the human papilloma virus, or HPV.
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