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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... c=fb&cc=fp

Anybody else find this outrageous?

I do believe that DNA evidence should be a given in any court case.

But...

It looks like a pretty rock-solid ruling. This is a states-rights issue. The article says that there's already a law in place to allow admission in Federal cases. It also says that 44 states and DC already have a similar law on the books. Either we leave it up to the remaining 6 stragglers, or we add a new amendment to the Constitution. The SCOTUS should be making calls on existing laws just like this one. It's not a place to create new laws, which is really what should be done.

The guy should have gone through the regular appeals process, or phoned his congressman. I can't think of anything more tragic than an innocent man rotting away in prison. I hope he gets the help he needs.

Not to be nitpicky, but the decision was not that he has no right to use DNA evidence, it is that the Constitution does not guarantee him this right - big difference, there.