Sawyer v. State

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of Sawyer’s Act 1780 habeas petition seeking DNA and handwriting testing. Sawyer failed to show that the requested testing would produce new, material evidence supporting a reasonable probability of innocence, and he also failed to rebut the statutory presumption that his petition was untimely. The court further held that his challenges to the confessions did not satisfy Act 1780’s requirements.