Supreme Court will rule on rights to DNA testing

Tuesday, November 4, 2008 - 13:07 in Psychology & Sociology

The justices will decide whether the constitution empowers inmates to obtain testing of old evidence that might free them. The case is from Alaska, one of six states that do not give that right. The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether prison inmates have a constitutional right to obtain the testing of old DNA evidence that might set them free.

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