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News Coverage of the Skinner v. Switzer Oral Argument

By Steve Hall

The transcript of the oral argument is available in Adobe .pdf format.  The SCOTUS Blog case file is here. Adam Liptak deftly writes about legal reasoning and logic and the case in, "High Court Weighs Death Row Inmate?s DNA Query," in the New York Times. In the course of an hourlong argument at the Supreme Court on Wednesday about a death row inmate?s quest to test DNA evidence, the justices asked neither of the questions that people without legal training might have thought crucial: Why won?t Texas prosecutors consent to the testing? And could the results show that the inmate, Henry W. Skinner, is innocent of the triple murder that sent him to death row? The justices focused instead on whether Mr. Skinner had located a path through a thicket of legal doctrines meant to limit postconviction challenges...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 14, 2010 (boomark / email).