Motion seeks DNA testing in 1999 Oskaloosa murder
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Posted: 06/20/2012
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By: Associated Press
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - Attorneys supporting a man convicted in the 1999 murder of an Oskaloosa teenager are asking for a new DNA test.
The Project for Innocence filed a motion this week in Jefferson County seeking the DNA test for Floyd Bledsoe. He is serving a life sentence for the death of his 14-year-old sister-in-law, Zetta Arfmann.
The 35-year-old Bledsoe has always maintained his innocence.
Bledsoe's attorneys argue that new technology could produce a DNA profile of the killer.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports Bledsoe's brother, Tom Bledsoe, was initially charged with killing Arfmann and confessed. But he later recanted and implicated his brother.
In 2008, a U.S. District Court ruled that Bledsoe should be freed because of ineffective counsel but an appeals court overturned that decision.
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