King v. State (Per Curiam)
Annotate this CaseIn 1998, Appellant was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 720 months' imprisonment. The Supreme Court affirmed. In 2011, Appellant filed a pro se petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to Act 1780 of 2001, contending that DNA and fingerprint testing should be performed on a rubber mask that was introduced into evidence at his trial. The trial court denied the petition on the basis that it was not timely filed. Appellant lodged an appeal and sought to supplement the record on appeal. The Supreme Court denied the motion and dismissed the appeal, holding that Appellant failed to rebut the presumption against timeliness because the testing suggested by Appellant was either available at the time of his trial or not shown to be substantially more probative than technology available at that time.
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