Attorney Josiah Cohen, who took over as Hicks’ lawyer earlier this year, has filed a motion seeking access to all of the files in the case.
That’s likely to set the stage for additional DNA testing and an effort to overturn Hicks’ conviction.
“The prosecution hammered her results in opening and closing,” Cohen wrote in his motion. “A finding that she falsified evidence in this specific case to the point of outright perjury is not merely impeaching at the margins. It strikes at the very core of the entire DNA component of the prosecution’s case.”