Bulletin: Ohio; Douglas Prade: (Former Akron Police Captain): A judge is insisting on a new round of DNA hearings before she rules on a new trial in the 1997 slaying of his ex-wife: " In November 2012, Hunter held four days of hearings on the latest test results of the bite-mark DNA — all of the experts agreeing that Prade was excluded — and freed him after he had served nearly 15 years for the crime. Prade’s lead attorney, David Alden of Cleveland, said those findings, at the very least, were all that’s necessary to establish reasonable doubt about Prade’s guilt. “The bottom line,” Alden said Friday in a phone interview, “is that we’ve already convinced somebody — Judge Hunter.”Ohio. com;

A judge has decided to conduct another evidentiary hearing before deciding whether former Akron Police Capt. Douglas Prade gets a new trial in the 1997 shooting death of his ex-wife.  Prade, 69, remains in a state penitentiary after an appellate court overturned a lower court’s exoneration order, in January 2013, based on advanced DNA testing that excluded him from crucial crime-scene evidence — a bite mark left under two layers of a lab coat worn by Dr. Margo Prade on the morning of the slaying. Common Pleas Judge Christine Croce, who has likened the notorious case to a ping-pong match, sent Prade back to prison last summer after the appellate reversal, and Prade’s fate now rests with her. In June, Croce heard arguments from both sides on the most up-to-date DNA findings, saying afterward that she would issue a written ruling on a new trial. Earlier this week, however, Croce’s continuing review of the voluminous case record sent her in a new direction. An order issued Thursday stated that another hearing “and follow-up expert testimony is necessary” before a decision is made.........Prade’s sister, Caralynn Prade, a legal assistant at a law firm in Houston, said in a phone interview Friday afternoon that the new evidentiary hearing “will bring forth the same results that the first hearing brought forth.” She said her brother will be found innocent “no matter how many times they review the DNA.” Both sides always have agreed that there was a struggle inside Dr. Prade’s vehicle before she was shot, and that the killer bit her in the upper-left arm through her lab coat and blouse. In November 2012, Hunter held four days of hearings on the latest test results of the bite-mark DNA — all of the experts agreeing that Prade was excluded — and freed him after he had served nearly 15 years for the crime. Prade’s lead attorney, David Alden of Cleveland, said those findings, at the very least, were all that’s necessary to establish reasonable doubt about Prade’s guilt. “The bottom line,” Alden said Friday in a phone interview, “is that we’ve already convinced somebody — Judge Hunter.”
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