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Release of DNA Evidence Must Be Brought As Habeas

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Searches, DNA Testing/Samples, Habeas Corpus, Wrongful Imprisonment. Location: Texas.

The plaintiff sued to obtain the release of biological evidence for DNA
testing, alleging it would be exculpatory as to his criminal conviction.
His suit was, in effect, a challenge to the validity of his criminal
conviction that must be pursued via habeas corpus. Since he had already
lost a ...

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