Few Inmates Use Law That Allows DNA Testing
Only a handful of California prisoners are taking advantage of a new state law allowing them to use DNA testing to try to prove their innocence, according to the attorney general’s office.
About 30 of the state’s 160,000 inmates have formally sought DNA testing under the law, which went into effect Jan. 1. And none of the requests has been approved.
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