State v. Scott

Citations

• 220 N.E.3d 668
• 171 Ohio St. 3d 651
• 2022 Ohio 4277

Syllabus

Criminal law—Postconviction DNA testing—R.C. 2953.74(C)(4) and (5)—R.C. 2953.74(D)—The possibility that an offender's postconviction DNA test results could match the profile of a person other than the offender in the Combined DNA Index System database is not \available admissible evidence\ that a trial court must consider under R.C. 2953.74(D) when deciding whether to grant an offender's application for postconviction DNA testing—The trial court and the court of appeals abused their discretion in unreasonably concluding that postconviction DNA test results would not be outcome determinative, because a presumed exclusion result when viewed in the context of the circumstantial evidence of the case presents a strong probability that a reasonable factfinder would not have found the offender guilty of the offense for which he was convicted—Judgment reversed and cause remanded to the trial court to approve application for postconviction DNA testing.