Supreme Court Rules Dna Tests For Prisoners Not A Constitutional Right

By a 5-4 vote, the justices say current protections are enough for convicts who believe old genetic evidence will exonerate them. The Supreme Court said today that DNA possesses a unique ability to free the innocent and convict the guilty, but the justices nonetheless ruled that prisoners do not have a constitutional right to demand DNA testing of evidence that remains in police files.

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