Opinion

State v. Luckett

  • 144 Ohio App. 3d 648
  • 761 N.E.2d 84
Court
Ohio Court of Appeals
Filed
Jul 17, 2001
Status
Published
Author
George
On the bench
Corrigan, George, Cooney, Ninth
Cited by
14 cases
Authority
More cited than 43.4%

The opinion

Joyce J. George, Judge,

concurring.

I concur with the majority opinion that the trial court abused its discretion, first, by not following the standards it established for itself and, second, by not making the findings required by

State v. Petro

(1947), 148 Ohio St. 505 , 36 O.O. 165 , 76 N.E.2d 370 . Before reaching the requirements of

Petro ,

the trial court set out an evidentiary standard to be met,

ie.,

that the DNA evidence would only be probative if the defendant could show that the sample came from the rapist. No evidence was offered as to the source of the DNA. Nonetheless, the trial court granted a new trial, ignoring the very standard it had established to be met. This was an abuse of discretion, preceding the failure to make the

Petro

findings.

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