{"id":1488,"date":"2009-06-18T16:49:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T20:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2009-06-19T08:32:10","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T12:32:10","slug":"scotus-rules-on-dna-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/06\/18\/scotus-rules-on-dna-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS rules on DNA tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1495\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/06\/supremecourt.bmp\" alt=\"supremecourt\" width=\"233\" height=\"173\" \/>The Supreme Court <a title=\"has decided\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/domesticNews\/idUSTRE55H4BD20090618\" target=\"_blank\">has decided <\/a>5-4 that convicts have no constitutional right to test old DNA evidence, ruling against an Alaska man convicted in an attack on a prostitute 16 years ago.\u00a0 School of Law Professor <a title=\"Tracey Maclin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/maclin_t.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tracey Maclin <\/a>can discuss the constitutional ramifications.<\/p>\n<p>Contact Tracey Maclin, 617-34688, <a href=\"mailto:tmaclin@bu.edu\">tmaclin@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has decided 5-4 that convicts have no constitutional right to test old DNA evidence, ruling against an Alaska man convicted in an attack on a prostitute 16 years ago.\u00a0 School of Law Professor Tracey Maclin can discuss the constitutional ramifications. Contact Tracey Maclin, 617-34688, tmaclin@bu.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1299,533],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1499,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/1499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}