A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to clarify that for a judge to grant postconviction dna testing the judge must determine that a favorable result from the requested dna test would have reasonably led to a different verdict in the defendant's case.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 15A‑269(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	The court shall grant the motion for DNA testing and, if testing complies with FBI requirements, the run of any profiles obtained from the testing, upon its determination that:
(1)	The conditions set forth in subdivisions (1), (2), and (3) of subsection (a) of this section have been met.
(2)	If the DNA testing being requested had been conducted on the evidence with favorable results, there exists a reasonable probability that the verdict would have been different.
(3)	The defendant has signed a sworn affidavit of innocence."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.