A new DNA access bill supported by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland is aiming to fight wrongful convictions at the highest level. Concerns about funding and the overall use of DNA testing still exist as the bill tries to gain full support.
The legislation followed a five-day investigation from the Columbus Dispatch that exposed flaws in Ohio's prisoner DNA-testing program and identified 30 cases that were prime candidates for testing. With the help of Cincinnati-area lab
DNA Diagnostics Center and the University of Cincinnati College of Law's
Ohio Innocence Project, files were built on the more than 300 prisoners who applied for testing, most of which previously had been denied.
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