Lively Argument Over DNA Testing

 Today the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case from Alaska that asks whether a convicted felon has a constitutional right to access state evidence for testing. Because the subject of this case, William Osborne, who was convicted of rape in 1993, did not avail himself of the more accurate DNA test prior to trial, and admitted his guilt at a parole hearing some of the Justices seemed to think he might be "gaming the system" by seeking DNA evidence now that he has nothing to lose.

 According to The Innocence Project, whose co-founder Peter Neufeld argued on Osborne's behalf, 232 wrongly convicted persons have been exonerated over the past two decades.

NYT story here.