The Importance of Melendez-Diaz and How it Could Be at Risk

by admin on August 12, 2009

Great post on Melendez-Diaz over at Reason by Radley Balko. He takes the position that the ruling is an important check on an often psuedo-sceintific approach to forensic evidence in criminal cases, and that the decsion could be rolled back or muted in the next Supreme Court session.

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