Hardin v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice CUNNINGHAM.

We accepted transfer to consider the issue of post-conviction DNA testing in a non-capital case. Appellants herein were convicted of the 1992 murder of Rhonda Sue Warford, based on highly circumstantial evidence. Both were sentenced to life imprisonment. Appellants, now represented by the The Innocence Project, seek the release of certain physical evidence recovered from the crime scene (namely, unidentified hams found in the victim’s hand) for DNA testing-testing which was unavailable at the time of Appellants’ trial and which, they claim, will prove…