Comment by gambiting

The core of the issue is somewhere else - it's the jury system. It's crazy to me that so much of the American "justice" relies on juries where they are free to ignore any scientific evidence and just vote the way that seems right to them. At the end it's a matter of which side can build a more passionate argument to sway the juries, rather than what evidence is actually presented and its rational meaning. So yeah of course the American judicial system is not willing to review past convictions based on scientific discoveries, because the convictions were rarely made on that basis anyway.