fuagf -- that's why I included the excerpt, in particular:
"The hearing comes after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Skinner could ask for the untested evidence, but left unresolved whether those items had to be surrendered by Gray County District Attorney Lynn Switzer."
point being, the hair-splitting by the prosecutors trying to run out the clock -- haven't looked at the Supreme Court decision to see what that was all about, whether the article was accurate in its description of that decision as leaving things open for this sort of hair-splitting by the prosecutors
Averitte hasn't ruled yet