State v. Blair

{¶ 1} Defendant-Appellant, Jeffrey 1 Blair, appeals pro se from the judgment of the Clark County Common Pleas Court denying his postconviction application for DNA testing. By statute, a trial court is precluded from accepting an application for DNA testing unless the offender can show that a new test would produce an exclusion result or that such a result would have been outcome determinative at trial. Blair has not and cannot show this, so the trial court properly rejected his application.

I. Background

{¶ 2} In 1988, Bridget Buxton's body was found in the Mad River. The following year, a jury…