Resolution Number: | 2000-D070 | |
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Title: | Support Legislation on DNA Testing for Accused Persons and Prisoners | |
Legislative Action Taken: | Concurred | |
Final Text: |
Resolved, That the 73rd General Convention call on state and federal governments to enact legislation to ensure that DNA testing be made available to accused persons when evidence to allow such testing is available or can be collected; and be it further
Resolved, That such testing should be made available to prisoners at any time during the corrections process to ensure that innocent persons are not wrongly incarcerated or executed.
Citation: | General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Denver, 2000 (New York: General Convention, 2001), p. 681. |
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