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inlawrev-26434	Pachciarz, Mary Cate	Blood, Sweat, and Tears: The Path to Modernizing the Fragmented DNA Evidence Procedures in Indiana	2022	30	.pdf	application/pdf	13916	949	60	[Vol. 55:163 Ultimately, through a letter from prison, Barnhouse sought help from the Innocence Project—an organization that exonerates the wrongly convicted via DNA testing.10 With the co-counsel of Professor Frances Watson and the Wrongful Conviction Clinic at Indiana University McKinney School of Law, the Innocence Project pursued DNA testing of the semen collected from the victim and her jeans.11 The Delaware County prosecutor agreed to DNA testing12 and the results excluded Barnhouse as the source of the semen.13 In May 2017, a Delaware County judge vacated Barnhouse’s conviction due to the exculpatory DNA test results.14 At sixty, Barnhouse, who has struggled his entire life with mental health conditions, finally ended his twenty-five-year fight for justice15 and became the 350th person in the United States exonerated by DNA evidence.16 Barnhouse’s story highlights the importance of DNA evidence for correcting errors. IN THE U.S.: A PATH FORWARD 1, 7 (2009), https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/228091.pdf [https://perma.cc/MSX4-34X4] [hereinafter 2022] BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS 165 post-conviction litigation often hinges on re-examination of physical evidence subjected to outdated or faulty testing methods.21 But DNA evidence can be destroyed in the time between a conviction and a petition for post-conviction testing.22	cache/inlawrev-26434.pdf	txt/inlawrev-26434.txt