Legal Opinion
In re Towne
Supreme Court of Vermont
Decided October 4, 2013No. 12-162PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtReiber, C.J.
¶ 1. Petitioner Edwin Towne appeals the trial court’s denial of his request for post-conviction DNA testing under Vermont’s Innocence Protection Act, 13 V.S.A. § 5561. We affirm the denial because the court correctly concluded that the results of the requested test would not have created a “reasonable probability” of a different outcome at trial.
¶ 2. Petitioner was convicted of murder in 1989. This Court affirmed petitioner’s conviction on direct appeal in 1992. State v. Towne, 158 Vt. 607, 615 A.2d 484 (1992). Since that time, petitioner has filed at least ten requests for post-conviction…
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