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Learning from Lacrosse

By K.C. Johnson

Two cases showing how the lessons of the lacrosse case can apply more broadly:1.) The Supreme Court has agreed to hear District Attorney's Office v. Osborne. The issue: should people convicted before modern DNA standards were developed have the right to DNA tests now, which could prove their innocence?2.) The lacrosse case wasn't the only one in which modern-day electronic evidence could be used to prove evidence, as this case involving records from a New York City metrocard revealed.

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on February 22, 2009 (boomark / email).