Did the trial court violate petitioner's right to due process when it admitted DNA evidence based on a novel methodology without conducting a pre-trial hearing to determine whether the evidence was reliable and generally accepted in the scientific community?

question presented for review is: Did the trial court violate petitioner’s right to due process when it admitted DNA evidence based on a novel methodology without conducting a pre-trial hearing to determine whether the evidence was reliable and generally accepted in the scientific community? 2. The trial court excluded most of the evidence petitioner sought to present that pointed to the victim’s intimate partner as the person who murdered her. The question presented for review is: What is the scope of a trial court’s authority to exclude defense evidence that points to another person as the perpetrator of the charged crimes?