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More News Coverage of the Osborne Ruling

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"Justices Reject Inmate Right to DNA Tests," is Adam Liptak's report in today's New York Times.Prisoners have no constitutional right to DNA testing that might prove their innocence, the Supreme Courtruled on Thursday in a 5-to-4 decision. The court divided along familiar ideological lines, with the majority emphasizing that 46 states already have laws that allow at least some prisoners to gain access to DNA evidence. And:Chief Justice Roberts acknowledged the ?unparalleled ability? of DNA testing ?both to exonerate the wrongly convicted and to identify the guilty.? Such testing has played a role in 240 exonerations, according to the Innocence Project at Cardozo Law School, which represents Mr. Osborne. In 103 of those cases, the testing also identified the actual perpetrator...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 19, 2009 (boomark / email).