State v. Johnson
Annotate this CaseDefendant pled nolo contendere to first-degree premeditated murder and aggravated robbery and was sentenced to a hard twenty-five life sentence for the murder. Eleven years after the crimes, Defendant filed a pro se motion for postconviction DNA testing of a knife found at the crime scene and presented as the murder weapon in this case. The district court summarily denied the motion, concluding that the DNA testing was not likely to prove Defendant did not commit the crime. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the district court properly denied Defendant’s motion because DNA testing could not produce exculpatory evidence impacting Defendant’s conviction or sentence.
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