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Texas Grants Prisoners Right to Forensic DNA Testing
Loaded on April 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2003, page 11
by Matthew T. Clarke The Texas state legislature has enacted what may be the most pro-prisoner post-conviction DNA testing entitlement law in the country. Codified at Chapter 64 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure, the law gives any convicted person the right to submit a motion for DNA testing …
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