A bill to provide for post-conviction DNA testing, to improve competence and performance of prosecutors, defense counsel, and trial judges handling State capital criminal cases, to ensure the quality of defense counsel in Federal capital cases, and for other purposes.
Prohibits the Government from destroying certain biological evidence over a 60 month period.
Declares that no statute of limitations shall extend to any person identified by means of a DNA database prior to identification.
Directs the Attorney General to establish a system for reporting and tracking motions for DNA testing.
Authorizes appropriations to defray State costs associated with post-conviction DNA testing.
Amends: (1) the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 regarding the definition of "qualifying Federal offense"; (2) the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 to include juveniles in CODIS (the Combined DNA Indexing System); (3) the State Justice Institute Act of 1984 to authorize grant awards to States for training of counsel representing defendants charged with capital offenses in State and local courts; and (4) the code and the Controlled Substances Act to prohibit an attorney who has been disciplined relating to a criminal case, or where that attorney has been found to have rendered ineffective assistance of counsel in another criminal case, from being eligible to represent an accused.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6950-6951)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
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