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Splitting 5-4, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an individual whose criminal conviction has become final does not have a constitutional right to gain access to evidence so that it can be subjected to DNA testing to try to prove innocence.

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Is there any place that lists all the dissenting opinions?

Answered by [livejournal.com profile] arashinomoui. Stevens' dissenting opinion starts on page 39. Shockingly, he thinks that what happens to actual human beings matters. I don't know how a justice with that much empathy managed to get onto the Supreme Court.

What are those five justices trying to optimize?

First link thanks to The Agitator.
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