TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 29, 2022

The American Bar Association filed an amicus brief yesterday with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the court to take up a Texas death penalty case in which the defendant was convicted on DNA evidence and testimony from a police laboratory that was later deemed unreliable by the state. The case represents the first opportunity for the ABA to bring its “Criminal Justice Standards on DNA Evidence” to the court’s attention, the group reports. The standards were approved as policy by the ABA House of Delegates in 2007 and recommended “minimum requirements for the collection, handling, analysis and use of DNA evidence in criminal cases.”