Opinion ID: 2746991
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Heading: S.’s birth date is September 20, 1996.

Text: 2 ¶4. The Holmes County Sheriff’s Department obtained an arrest warrant for Jeremy Cage and an order to retrieve a DNA sample from him upon his arrest. Cage’s mother Melissa Cage York brought him to the police station on August 31, 2010. Cage was twenty-one years old at the time of his arrest.3 Melissa told Captain Sam Chambers with the Holmes County Sheriff’s Department that she had last seen Cage on her front porch at around 8:00 p.m. on the night in question. ¶5. Upon his arrest, the police performed a buccal swab on Cage and sent the swab to the Mississippi Crime Lab in Jackson for testing. The Crime Lab compared DNA from Cage’s buccal swabs and DNA from a blood sample taken from A.S. to the DNA retrieved from the vaginal swab in A.S.’s rape kit. The DNA testing indicated that Cage could not be excluded as a contributor to the mixture of DNA retrieved from the vaginal swab, and the results of the test excluded more than ninety-nine percent of the population. There was no indication of any other contributing DNA, other than that of A.S. herself.