People v. Tookes’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “An alternative statutory reading would require a court to order post-judgment DNA testing on demand.... A more reasonable interpretation is that the Legislature intended that DNA testing be ordered only upon a court's threshold determination, in the context of the trial evidence, that testing results carry a reasonable potential for exculpation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 385 Wis. 2d 514 - State v. Reas-Mendez

2. “While exoneration of the wrongfully convicted should not be restricted by monetary considerations, automatic testing would impose an unnecessary burden on the state's resources in cases where the results are unlikely to have had any impact upon the verdict.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 385 Wis. 2d 514 - State v. Reas-Mendez