The Illinois Supreme Court rejected a man’s plea for a new trial on Friday, ruling a forensic report that tied him to a sexual assault was properly admitted as evidence against him. John Barner argued the evidence violated his Sixth Amendment right to confrontation, saying the scientists who created a DNA profile used to help connect him to the crime should have been compelled to testify at his trial. Barner was arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault in July 2002, more than three years after the …