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Section 2953.57 - Timing of judgment vacating and setting aside conviction because of DNA testing.

Ohio Rev Code § 2953.57 (2019) (N/A)
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(A) A court that enters a judgment that vacates and sets aside the conviction of a person because of DNA testing that was performed under sections 2953.71 to 2953.81 of the Revised Code or under section 2953.82 of the Revised Code shall issue ninety days after the court vacates and sets aside the conviction an order directing that all official records pertaining to the case involving the vacated conviction be sealed and that the proceedings in the case shall be deemed not to have occurred.

(B) As used in sections 2953.57 to 2953.60 of the Revised Code, "official records" has the same meaning as in section 2953.51 of the Revised Code.

Added by 128th General AssemblyFile No.30, SB 77, §1, eff. 7/6/2010.

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