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55 Syracuse L. Rev. 161 (2004-2005)
Innocence after Guilt: Postconviction DNA Relief for Innocents Who Pled Guilty

handle is hein.journals/syrlr55 and id is 171 raw text is: INNOCENCE AFTER GUILT: POSTCONVICTION DNA RELIEF FOR INNOCENTS WHO PLED GUILTY Eunyung Theresa Oht CONTENTS IN TRODU CTION .......................................................................................... 162 I. THE G UILTY PLEA ............................................................................ 164 A . W ho P leads G uilty? ................................................................... 166 B. Economic Considerations of the Guilty Plea ............................ 169 II. D N A EV ID EN CE ............................................................................... 171 A. Right ofAccess to Courts for Incarcerated Defendants ............ 174 1. DNA Evidence and Actual Innocence ................................. 175 B. Postconviction DNA Relief Should be Granted to an Innocent who Pled Guilty .......................................................... 178 1. Postconviction Judicial Review of DNA Evidence is E conom ical ...................................................................... 178 2. Postconviction Judicial Review of DNA Evidence is Efficient ........................................................................... 179 3. The Harmful Impact of an Innocent's Erroneous C onviction ........................................................................... 18 1 4. The Availability of DNA Technology and its Scientific Advances ............................................................. 182 5. Postconviction DNA Relief Reveals Flaws in the Criminal Justice System ...................................................... 184 6. Postconviction DNA Relief Does Not Interfere with Judicial F inality .................................................................. 184 III. A POSSIBLE SOLUTION ..................................................................... 185 C ON CLU SION .............................................................................................. 186 B.A., English, Skidmore College, 2001; J.D. Candidate, Syracuse University College of Law, 2005. The author is indebted to Professor Daniel S. Medwed of the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law and Professor Linda Feldman of Brooklyn Law School for their invaluable suggestions, comments, and encouragement, which were integral to this Note. She also thanks Dr. Richard Morris and Judge Denny Chin for their advice and insight. Finally, she thanks her family and John Morris for their infinite love and support because without them, none of this would have been possible.

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