ABSTRACT
THE MCCLENDON CASE taught me that granting an inmate the right to have post-conviction DNA testing when it can absolutely prove guilt or innocence and perhaps identify the true perpetrator should be a no-brainer. But the U.S. Supreme Court was about to decide how this right of a prisoner stacked up against the rights of a state-specifically the state of Alaska, where no convict had ever been granted the right to have postconviction DNA testing.
