B.C. court orders further DNA testing in Tallio murder case

A B.C. Court of Appeal decision Monday paves the way for further DNA testing in the case of Phillip Tallio, a B.C. man who’s been in prison for 34 years for a murder he says he didn’t commit.
A unanimous decision signed by three B.C. Court of Appeal judges and delivered Monday morning says “it is in the interests of justice to allow the testing to occur.”
Tallio was arrested in 1983 for the murder of a 22-month-old child on the Bella Coola First Nation reserve. At his tri