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To: E who wrote (3859)3/20/2002 10:35:40 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 21057
 
Someone, maybe karen, mentioned earlier in this discussion the resistance in her (?) state to releasing DNA that might prove innocence.

I couldn't find anything about what's going on in the state but I did find this clip. It's incomplete. It's from the Post archives and I can't get at the rest.

U.S. Appeals Court Reverses Ruling on DNA Testing
Article 32 of 102 found
Brooke A. MastersWashington Post Staff Writer
January 24, 2002; Page B1
Section: Metro
Word Count: 547

A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that convicted felons do not have a constitutional right to post-conviction DNA testing, reversing a groundbreaking opinion issued last year in the case of a Fairfax County man serving 25 years for a rape he claims he did not commit. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found unanimously that inmate James Harvey had failed to prove that Fairfax Commonwealth's Attorney Robert F. Horan Jr. violated his civil rights by
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