You are a judge in a civil trial where a young man is attemptingto prove that he is the illegitimate child of a very wealthy manwho has recently died. He wishes to be included in the distributionof the wealth. After considering all the testimony about how thisperson was conceived, the key evidence seems to come down to twomain facts. The wealthy man and the mother of the young man areboth deaf but the young man is not. Therefore the lawyer of thefamily suggests that the wealthy man is not the father. The mother,wealthy man, and young man all have O, MM, Rh blood type at thephenotypic level but a genotyping screen indicates that the wealthyman is actually IAIA hh blood type. How doyou interpret the evidence presented and how does it influence yourdecision in this case?
