The legal battle over whether a new type of DNA evidence​ against accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann​ will be thrown out continued on Wednesday.

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The suspect in the Gilgo Beach serial killings and his attorneys spent another day in court debating over DNA evidence. Lawyers for Rex Heuermann were in court to ask a Suffolk County judge to disqualify some of the DNA evidence collected by prosecutors. The new technique is whole-genome sequencing of the DNA within a hair.

Heuermann's defense team has sought to bar from trial the DNA results from rootless hairs found at six of the seven crime scenes that have been linked to their client or members of his family.