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CCA Rejects DNA Testing in Larry Swearingen Case

By Steve Hall

The ruling is here.  Michael Graczyk writes the AP report, "Condemned killer of college student loses appeal," via the Dallas Morning News.The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejected a request Wednesday from the condemned killer of a 19-year-old Montgomery County student to submit evidence in his case to additional DNA testing. Larry Swearingen, 38, is on death row for abducting and strangling Melissa Trotter, a student at what then was known as Montgomery College, near Conroe. Her body was found in January 1999 some 20 miles away in Sam Houston National Forest south of Huntsville, nearly a month after she was last seen leaving the school library. Swearingen and his attorneys have argued he was in jail on outstanding traffic warrants when Trotter was killed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 11, 2010 (boomark / email).