I support DNA testing in every case where it can overturn a wrongful conviction or confirm guilt. Everyone deserves justice, and there is no reason to deny testing that could lead to the exoneration of an innocent person. Post-conviction DNA access benefits the wrongfully convicted and their families and it also helps crime victims, prosecutors, law enforcement officers and the public because it often identifies the true perpetrators of crimes.

The three states without DNA testing laws (Alaska, Massachusetts and Oklahoma) should immediately enact reforms that explicitly allow access to post-conviction testing, and other states should improve their DNA access laws to ensure that DNA testing, when it has the possibility to overturn a wrongful conviction, is: 

• available to every person convicted of a crime, regardless of whether he or she is currently incarcerated;
• available regardless of whether a convicted person confessed, pled guilty, or has exhausted his or her appeals; and
• not subject to an expiration or sunset date.