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Winning Ticket To Be Tested For Fingerprints
Woman Says She Remembers Picking Winning Numbers

POSTED: 8:17 a.m. EST January 8, 2004

CLEVELAND -- The attorney representing a woman who claims she lost the winning ticket for the $162 million Mega Millions jackpot but lost it will have the ticket tested, NewsChannel5 reported.


Sheldon Starke said he is filing an order demanding to have the ticket tested for fingerprints and DNA to try to prove it was Elecia Battle who originally bought the ticket.

NewsChannel5's Joe Pagonakis went head-to-head with Battle about purchasing the ticket.

Battle, 40, said she remembers specifically picking the winning numbers.

She later said that some of the picks on the ticket were randomly made, even though the Lottery Commission confirmed all five bets on the ticket were made with specific numbers requested by the buyer.

When NewsChannel5's Pagonakis showed Battle a copy of the winning ticket given to WEWS by the Ohio Lottery, her eyes began to tear up.

At one point, her lawyer asked her if she had ever seen the ticket.

The credibility of Battle, however, is being questioned, NewsChannel5 reported. Battle has a criminal record for credit card fraud and assault.

Police said Battle used a customer's credit card number to make purchases while working at a Richmond Heights pharmacy in 1999. She paid a $450 fine for misuse of a credit card, and a 10-day jail sentence was suspended.

Starke, however, said that Battle's credibility is not the focus of the case.

Meanwhile, Rebecca Jemison claimed the winning jackpot. She chose the cash option of $67.2 million.