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CapeCoddah1/25/2010 7:25:00 am PST

re: #288 RogueOne

I think we need to make better use of DNA. An imprisoned innocent is horrid. I can never understand why a state refuses to do DNA tests when such a simple thing can clear up a lot of questions about someone who has been imprisoned for a crime committed where DNA was present, but the technology was not there yet. We have a lot of those cases, and a lot of prosecutors, like Martha Coakley, refusing to look at the possibility of innocence so as not to hurt their political image. If I were a prosecutor, I would pay for those tests myself if I had to, I damned sure would not wish to hold an innocent.