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Skinner v. Switzer, No. 09-9000 (U.S. Supreme Court) (562 U.S. 521; 131 S.Ct. 1289) (March 7, 2011) (Justice Ginsburg)

Loaded on March 7, 2011 published in Punch and Jurists March 21, 2011
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, DNA Evidence/Testing.

Here, in a narror ruing, the Court held, by a 6-3 vote, that the Federal courts may hear, in a civil rights suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, a claim by a state prisoner that his state’s procedures for testing of DNA evidence was flawed.

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