Supreme Court denies right to DNA tests
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The U.S. Supreme Court has denied prisoners the right to DNA tests in a case out of Alaska.
The majority of states and the federal government allow such tests, and Alabama will soon extend the right to death-row inmates, but not Alaska, Massachusetts or Oklahoma.
I’ll write more about the decision for Monday, but it seems another instance of putting the process over justice. Yes, there is a need for some finality but not at the expense of someone’s freedom, even their life.
DNA testing has exonerated more than 200 people. That should have made all of the justices sit up.
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on Friday, June 19th, 2009 at 5:53 pm by Noreen O'Donnell.
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