And I wouldn't expect a lot of people to get "sprung" by new DNA testing -- when it became available, very few requested it because the system mostly works, and they knew it would just be another nail in the coffin.
Which makes prisoners who request it and are denied multiple times a sad case and evidence of government abuse. There's a current case where a guy was freed after a long time in jail, having been rejected on his DNA test requests 3 times over the years.
Any prosecutors reading this? You should be ashamed in light of the previous two paragraphs. I suggest rather encouraging it, since people who want a re-test probably are innocent, or at least beyond a reasonable doubt anymore. Then you can look like the hero rather than the idiot who struggled to unfairly keep them behind bars.
Maybe if we set up a web site where people could "throw shoes at the face" of prosecutors who tried their best to get in the way of DNA tests for prisoners in jail who are eventually exonerated. Do you want the quick political benefits of preventing the revealing of a mistake (a horrid thing to do, but I can see climbers making such a calculation, sigh) and thus end up, in the long run, a laughing stock like Lenin and Stalin and Hitler and godwin knows who else?
