http://statenews.com. A wrongly convicted criminal serving time might not get access to all the evidence he or she needs thanks to a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision. The court decided Thursday that access to DNA testing for convicted prisoners isn’t a constitutional right, despite at least 232 cases having been overturned by DNA evidence in the U.S. en-us Gryphon 2.2.3b-tsn (woodward)/Foundry5 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:54:39 -0400 webmaster@statenews.com http://statenews.com./index.php/comment/view/41109 “On a state-by-state basis, the court’s opinion appears to be in the minority. Forty-six states, including the federal government, have enacted laws granting convicts access to DNA testing. Only Alaska, Alabama, Massachusetts and Oklahoma don’t allow such tests. However, justices only rule on what is constitutional, not what’s popular. And they wrongly think prisoners don’t have the right to all the evidence against them.” If you had read the case at all, you would note that the court said that this “right” should be decided by each state individually. The court does not say that they do not deserve access to such testing, only that the Constitution does not provide for it and that it must be decided by Congress and the states themselves. Perhaps you are volunteering to go to Alaska and protest on behalf of the plaintiff in this case so that he can have his day in court? Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:54:39 -0400 http://statenews.com./index.php/comment/view/41109