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- Title: Commonwealth v. Heilman
- Author : Texas Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 18, 2005
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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1 This case returns to our Court for the third time in the past fourteen years. We are called upon to consider the propriety of the trial courts dismissal without a hearing of Heilmans second petition under the Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA), 42 Pa.C.S. §§ 9541-46. With that petition, Heilman seeks testing under PCRAs § 9543.1, the recently enacted section that permits an inmate to seek DNA testing of evidence used to convict him where such testing may establish his innocence of the crime(s) of conviction. The trial court dismissed Heilmans petition because it found that he failed to satisfy the prima facie requirement set forth in § 9543.1(c)(3). We affirm.