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MA: Boston Bar Issues Report Saying MA should join almost every other state in allowing DNA tests to uncover wrongful convictions

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Perhaps the committee?s most notable recommendation is for Massachusetts to join 46 other states that have passed laws allowing convicts to have DNA tests performed on evidence that may prove their innocence. The other states without DNA-testing statutes are Alabama, Alaska, and Oklahoma. Study says widen access to DNA tests Change may uncover wrongful convictions By Jonathan Saltzman Globe Staff / December 16, 2009 Massachusetts should join almost every other state in the country by passing a law to give convicted prisoners access to DNA evidence that could prove their innocence, according to a new study of ways to prevent and uncover wrongful convictions. The Bay State is one of only four states without a law allowing prisoners to have DNA tests performed on evidence that remains in police files...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 16, 2009 (boomark / email).