Hall v. State (Per Curiam)
Annotate this CaseAfter a jury trial in 1992, Appellant was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. In 2011, Appellant filed a pro se petition for writ of habeas corpus pursuant to Act 1780 of 2001, seeking scientific testing of a cigarette butt found in an ashtray at the victim's home where the victim's body was discovered. The trial court denied the petition. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the testing of the cigarette butt would not produce new material evidence or raise a reasonable probability that Appellant did not commit the murder, and therefore, Appellant was not entitled to have the cigarette butt tested pursuant to Act 1780.
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