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last Monday in February edition

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

This week’s edition is now available. From the intro: Leading off this week is a noncapital case from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Comm. v. Anthony Wright. The Wright Court held that the mere fact that a person makes an inculpatory statement does not bar them from requesting postconviction DNA testing. As the Innocence Project notes, ?[t]he court acknowledges that the legislature passed the DNA testing law in response to a number of DNA exonerations, including one in which the person cleared by DNA evidence had confessed to the crime.  The court notes that the fact that a confession has been deemed voluntary and admissible at trial does not mean that it is true and says, ?We need not be reminded of the countless situations where persons confess to crimes of which they are innocent, either out of desire to cover up for the guilty person or because of a psychological urge to do so?...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 01, 2011 (boomark / email).