State v. Noling (Slip Opinion)

*109{¶ 1} In this direct appeal as of right, Tyrone Noling, a capital defendant, has *438appealed from several rulings of the Court of Common Pleas of Portage County relating to his second application for postconviction DNA testing. For the reasons below, we affirm the lower court's judgment in part and reverse it in part.

I. RELEVANT BACKGROUND

{¶ 2} Noling was found guilty of aggravated murder and was sentenced to death for killing Bearnhardt and Cora Hartig in Portage County in 1990. The court of appeals and this court affirmed Noling's convictions and death sentence. State v. Noling , 98 Ohio St.3d…