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boston.com - 6/19/2009

Supreme Court rejects inmates' right to have DNA test - The Boston Globe

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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said it is up to the states and Congress to decide who has a right to the genetic testing.

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scotusblog.com - 6/18/2009

Court rejects DNA access claim

— scotusblog.com — Spitting 5-4, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday 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. (more) Court rejects DNA access claim

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adn.com - 6/19/2009

Supreme Court says Alaska rapist has no right to DNA test

— adn.com — Convicts have no constitutional right to DNA evidence testing that might prove their innocence after they have... been found guilty, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday in an Alaska case. (more) Supreme Court says Alaska rapist has no right to DNA test

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nytimes.com - 6/18/2009

Justices Rule Inmates Don’t Have Right to DNA Tests

— nytimes.com — WASHINGTON — Convicts do not have a right under the Constitution to obtain DNA testing to try... to prove their innocence after being found guilty, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. In a 5-to-4 decision, the court found against William G. Osborne, a ... (more) Justices Rule Inmates Don’t Have Right to DNA Tests

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Morning No: No Prisoners
Open Left - Front Page — ... rights abuses maintained. - I'm not always Obama's biggest fan, but we are so damn lucky that Mike Pence and John McCain aren't handling our foreign policy right now. Dodged a bullet doesn't begin to cover it. - Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak says it's a good time for Arab-Israeli peace, and that Obama has made clear that it's politics, not values, that separate the US and the Middle East. - Justice John Roberts led the Supreme Court to deny that inmates have a constitutional right to DNA testing. - Worldwide protests marked Nobel ...

Something Like Justice
Suburban Guerrilla — Because, as we know, elected officials in all their wisdom are so much more even-handed about this sort of thing! WASHINGTON - Prisoners do not have a constitutional right to DNA testing after their conviction, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday, even though the technology provides an “unparalleled ability both to exonerate the wrongly convicted and to identify the guilty.’’ In the court’s first examination of how to treat the rapidly evolving field of biological testing, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote for a majority that said it is up to ...

The Supreme Court & DNA Testings
The Corner on National Review Online — ... , of the Court's Osbourne decision . I'm actually torn on this one, and I'm more sympathetic to the dissenting justices than I usually am. But I'm also a believer that that lots of very bad things can be constitutional just as a lot of very good things can be unconstitutional. I'll read up more before I make up my mind about the constitutional aspects of all this. But, as a matter of public policy, I have long believed that the state has a real interest in providing DNA testing, particularly in capital cases, whenever it might exonerate the convicted. Ideally, such tests would ...