Case Name: STATE ex rel. Henry JACKSON v. STATE of Louisiana
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 2012-05-25
Citations: 90 So. 3d 384
Docket Number: No. 2011-KH-0394
Parties: STATE ex rel. Henry JACKSON v. STATE of Louisiana.
Judges: VICTORY and CLARK, JJ„ would deny.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Third Series
Volume: 90
Pages: 384–384

Head Matter:
STATE ex rel. Henry JACKSON v. STATE of Louisiana.
No. 2011-KH-0394.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
May 25, 2012.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
| Writ granted. Following a rape conviction in which the state's case rested largely on the victim's identification and in which relator presented a defense of mis-identification at trial, the lower courts erred when they denied the application for post conviction DNA testing based on the alleged failure of the testing to establish relator's innocence. La. Code Crim. Proc. art. 926.1(B) and (C). The district court is therefore directed to investigate the availability and integrity of the untested evidence and to order DNA testing in the event that it determines the results could tend to make relator's guilt more or less probable. La.Code Crim. Proc. art. 926.1(C) and (D). See e.g., State v. Stokes, 10-1387 (La.2/11/11), 56 So.3d 1008.
VICTORY and CLARK, JJ" would deny.
WEIMER, J., recused.