U.S. v. Fasono, No. 08-60750 (5th Cir.) (577 F.3d 572) (August 4, 2009) (Judge Patrick E. Higginbotham)
Here the Court addressed two of the ten statutory prerequisites for obtaining DNA testing under the Innocence Protection Act of 2004 (18 U.S.C. § 3600), namely § 3600(a)(4) (chain of custody) and § 3600(a)(8) (reasonable probability of innocence).
This decision case addresses two of the provisions of the Innocence Protection ...
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