Supreme Court of Louisiana, 2012

State ex rel. Thinh Tran v. State

State ex rel. Thinh Tran v. State
Supreme Court of Louisiana · Decided October 8, 2012
99 So. 3d 1005; 2012 WL 4768950; 2012 La. LEXIS 2691 (Southern Reporter, Third Series)

State ex rel. Thinh Tran v. State

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

11 Writ granted. Following a rape conviction in which the state’s case rested on identification testimony and in which relator presented a defense of misidentification at trial, the lower courts erred when they denied the application for post conviction DNA testing based on the alleged failure of the testing to establish relator’s innocence. La.Code Crim. Proc. art. 926.1(B) and (C). The district court is therefore directed to hold a hearing to evaluate the availability and integrity of the physical evidence and to order DNA testing in the event that it determines the results could tend to make relator’s guilt more or less probable. La.Code Crim. Proc. art. 926.1(C) and (D). See e.g., State ex rel. Jackson v. State, 11-0394 (La.5/25/12), 90 So.3d 384; State v. Stokes, 10-1387 (La.2/11/11), 56 So.3d 1008.

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