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To: Lane3 who wrote (8033)4/10/2002 9:45:31 AM
From: E   of 21057
 
The debate over DNA testing has tended to break down along liberal-conservative lines. There is no good reason for this. Making sure that guilty people -- and not innocent ones -- are punished is the universally acknowledged goal of the criminal justice system. And providing some retroactive check, to the extent that science now permits it, ought to be an easy call, irrespective of one's politics. The interests of all sides -- convicts, prosecutors and the judicial system generally -- would be served by relatively routine DNA testing in situations where old, previously untested evidence could shed light on the accuracy of a conviction. Unfortunately, however, many conservatives have reflexively opposed reform efforts or have sought to make testing available only in the narrowest of circumstances. Some prosecutors, meanwhile, have fiercely resisted convicts' requests to test material.

Neocon omitted this characteristic of conservatism in his recent essay on the subject, I believe.
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