Kaye quoted in `Washington Post’

11/06/2008

Kaye quoted in `Washington Post' 
     
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        David Kaye
An article in the Nov. 2 edition of The Washington Post about a convicted rapist who won a federal lawsuit seeking new DNA tests that he says could clear him of the charges included comments by David Kaye, Regents' Professor of Law.
     According to reporter Jerry Markon, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to review a federal appeals court ruling in the case of William G. Osborne could accelerate a national trend that allows inmates to petition for post-conviction DNA testing. Arizona is among 44 states that have passed such laws.
     "People would be able to say `Look, I have a federal right to testing; federal courts have to enforce my right and so do state courts,'" said Kaye, a Faculty Fellow in the College's Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology, and a Professor in the School of Life Sciences at ASU. "It would encourage judges at all levels to give orders requiring such testing."
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