Obama and Congress need to override the Supreme Court on the usage of DNA evidence

ck4829

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Thu Jun-18-09 12:22 PM
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Obama and Congress need to override the Supreme Court on the usage of DNA evidence

Convicted criminals do not have a constitutional right to obtain access to a state's biological evidence to conduct DNA testing when pursuing claims of innocence, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

By a 5-4 vote, the nation's highest court refused to create a new legal right for post-conviction DNA testing, which has exonerated at least 232 people nationwide years after they had been found guilty.

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE55H4BD20090618

This right wing Supreme Court is threatening "innocent until proven guilty" with this ruling.

It's time to undo the damage.

How?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly_Ledbetter_Fair_Pay_Act

Obama and Congress should do something similar for this.

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MNDemNY

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Thu Jun-18-09 12:29 PM
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1. Though I disagree with this ruling....

Post-conviction=proven guilty in our system.Not a good argument.
(I understand many people have been exonerated "post-conviction, but that argument turns or system on it's head.)

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