289 Ga. App. 856 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “(1) ... a person convicted of a felony may file a written motion before the trial court that entered the judgment of conviction in his or her case for the performance of forensic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing. ... (3) The motion shall be verified by the petitioner and shall show or provide the following: (A) Evidence that potentially contains deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was obtained in relation to the crime and subsequent indictment, which resulted in his or her conviction; (B) The evidence was not subjected to the requested DNA testing because the existence of the evidence was unknown to the petitioner or to the petitioner's trial attorney prior to trial or because the technology for the testing was not available at the time of trial; (C) The identity of the perpetrator was, or should have been, a significant issue in the case; [and] (D) The requested DNA testing would raise a reasonable probability that the petitioner would have been acquitted if the results of DNA testing had been available at the time of conviction, in light of all the evidence in the case; ...”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. De La Cruz v. State

2. “[e]vidence that potentially contains [DNA] was obtained in relation to the crime[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Earnest Ray White v. State