DNA TEST RIGHT DEFINED

A federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia, reversed a groundbreaking opinion and ruled that a man convicted of rape in 1990 does not have a constitutional right to DNA testing on evidence.  According to the three-judge panel of the fourth US Circuit Court of Appeals, they unanimously that James Harvey failed to prove the Fairfax County prosecutor violated his civil rights by refusing to allow tests on evidence from Harvey's rape and sodomy trial.  

(Richmond, Virginia)