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  • Supreme Court opens way for prisoners to try to gain access to DNA evidence

    03/07/2011 6:29:38 PM PST · by neverdem · 29 replies
    Washington Post ^ | March 7, 2011 | Robert Barnes
    The Supreme Court opened a legal avenue Monday for prisoners to try to gain access to DNA evidence that might prove their innocence but noted that their chances at success might be slim. The court ruled 6 to 3 in favor of Texas death row inmate Henry Skinner, who has maintained that he did not kill his girlfriend and her two sons. Skinner came within 45 minutes of being executed last spring before the Supreme Court took up his case. There was no guarantee in the court's narrow ruling that Skinner, convicted in 1995, will ever gain access to all...