High court says convicts lack right to DNA testing
Friday, June 19, 2009
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court said Thursday that a convicted rapist has no constitutional right to test biological evidence used at his trial in Alaska years earlier, leaving it to the states to decide when prisoners get access to genetic evidence that might prove their innocence.
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