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District Attorney's Office v. Osborne, No. 08-6 (U.S. Supreme Court) (557 U.S. 52; 129 S.Ct. 2308) (June 18, 2009) (Justice (John G.) Roberts)

Loaded on May 1, 2009 published in Punch and Jurists May 18, 2009
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Constitutional Right to DNA Testing.

Here the Court held, by a 5-4 vote, that an individual whose criminal conviction has become final does not have a constitutional right to gain access to evidence so that it can be subjected to DNA testing to try to prove his innocence.

In a stark and depressing reminder of ...

 

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