Times Editorial Urges DNA Testing

DNA Testing makes so much sense and is so fair how can anyone be against it? The Supreme Court should affirm a federal court of appeals ruling to give prisoners access to DNA evidence that could establish their innocence.

You would almost think it was mandatory with the number of innocent men our society has discovered that have wrongly been put in jail.

You would almost think.

A New York Times editorial calls out Alaska and asks for DNA testing, one day after an article by Robert Morgenthau, the retiring NY District Attorney suggests the same.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/02/opinion/02mon2.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

'The Hard Cases' Featured in New Yorker

New Yorker Examines a ‘Hard’ Detainee Case

If you are at a news stand and want to pick up a magazine to read, and you are looking for an intersting piece, may I suggest the New Yorker Magazine and the article, “The Hard Cases,” . Oh, and in a shameless, self promoting plug, it is available at Norm's News at 1400 East Las Olas, open seven days a week. See my nephew Tyler if he is not flirting with the female hairstylists in the barber shop next door.

It takes a close-up look at the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, an alleged enemy combatant held without charge in a Charleston, S.C., brig, and the difficult policy choices facing President Obama.

Al-Marri, whose criminal charges in the federal court system were dismissed in 2003 when al-Marri was declared an enemy combatant by President Bush, is at the center of a Supreme Court case on whether a president can order someone held indefinitely without charge in national security cases.

The article also looks at possible strategies, including a controversial proposal to create a national security court, that the new administration may employ in alleged terrorism cases.

Thanks to Gavel Grab for turning me on to this magazine piece. By the way, h is also a stunning article by the nationally respected New York District Attorney, Robert Morgenthau, censuring the State of Alaska for its refusal to use DNA testing:

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/02/27/2009-02-27_alaskas_refusal_to_use_a_dna_test_for_tr.html