30 Days, 30 deceptions - 17th of 30

By 'raindrop'

DNA evidence

As an Illinois state senator, Obama sponsored and lobbied for legislation that would give all inmates a post-conviction right to DNA evidence that he is President....

"...The decision to maintain the same position as the Bush Administration in the case has caused deep disappointment among innocence advocates, especially in light of President Barack Obama's strong support of access to DNA evidence while a state senator in Illinois

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"Our position is there is no constitutional right to DNA," Neal Katyal (Obama's Principal Deputy Solicitor General), a former Georgetown law professor, told the (U.S. Supreme Court) justices.

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The Office of the (Obama) Solicitor General has adhered to Bush's position that the inmate does not have a constitutional right to re-test the DNA evidence, even though doing so could establish his innocence and despite the fact that his attorney will pay for the new scientific analysis of the evidence...The Obama DOJ aggressively argued before the (U.S. Supreme) Court that convicted criminals have no constitutional right to access evidence for DNA analysis. Indeed, its decision to embrace this extreme Bush position caused much controversy and anger back in February....