State v. Nalls

Fain, Judge.

{¶ 1} Defendant-appellant, Larry Nalls, appeals from an order of the trial court rejecting his application for DNA testing. Nalls contends that the trial court abused its discretion by denying his application. He further contends that the trial court erred by ruling on the application without first permitting him to file a reply to the state’s memorandum, in which the state opposed his application.

{¶ 2} We conclude that the trial court did err by cutting off Nails’s right, under the trial court’s local rules of procedure, to file a responsive pleading in opposition to the state’s…