The Northern California Innocence Project will be reviewing DNA evidence from a 2006 trial that resulted in a murder conviction for a former Sacramento laborer arrested for the 1982 slaying of a Vacaville woman.
Innocence Project supervising attorney Maitreya Bodami appeared briefly before Solano County Superior Court Judge Peter B. Foor Monday, requesting appointment to the case of murder defendant Vincent Carl Ortiz and an order for new DNA testing. The California DNA Project will be joining in the probe.
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