State v. Price

Hildebrandt, Presiding Judge.

{¶ 1} Bringing forth three assignments of error, defendant-appellant, Ronald Price, appeals from the trial court’s judgment denying his application for DNA testing pursuant to R.C. 2953.71 et seq. For the following reasons, we reverse.

{¶ 2} In 1986, Price was convicted of raping a three-year-old girl and was sentenced to life in prison. During Price’s trial to the bench, the resident physician who had examined the victim shortly after the rape testified that a “rape protocol kit” had been obtained and that the child had been thoroughly examined with the…