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Post-Conviction DNA Testing an Issue in Kentucky

By Steve Hall

AP reports, "Ky. high court weighing challenge to DNA law," via the Lexington Herald-Banner.  It's written by Brett Barrouquere. Thomas Clyde Bowling admits his car was used in the shooting deaths of a husband and wife in Lexington nearly two decades ago. Bowling, condemned to death for the killings, also insists he was too drunk to have committed the crime - and that someone else drove his car and wore his jacket while gunning down Eddie and Tina Earley outside their dry cleaning shop. Now, whether he'll get the DNA testing he hopes will prove his theory is in the hands of the Kentucky Supreme Court. The high court on Wednesday heard oral arguments about the scope of Kentucky's law allowing post-conviction genetic testing on evidence and whether the statute allows for multiple tests in a single case...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 15, 2010 (boomark / email).