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Type
Dissent
Filed
June 18, 2009
Case
District Attorney's Office for the Third Judicial District v. Osborne
Case status
Decided

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Justice Souter, dissenting. I respectfully dissent on the ground that Alaska has failed to provide the effective procedure required by the Fourteenth Amendment for vindicating the liberty interest in demonstrating innocence that the state law recognizes. I therefore join Part I of Justice Stevens’s dissenting opinion. I would not decide Osborne’s…

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