(13) Simple but crucial enhancements to protocols for properly preserving biological evidence can solve old crimes, enhance public safety and settle claims of innocence. (14) Existing Federal, State, and local laws still erect procedural hurdles that result in some potentially innocent applicants being barred from seeking DNA testing after a conviction has been imposed despite enduring probative value of DNA evidence. (15) During his 2005 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush urged that, [i]n America, we must make doubly sure no person is held to account for a crime he or she did not commit, so we are dramatically expanding the use of DNA evidence to prevent wrongful conviction . (16) United States Attorney General Eric Holder expressed his hope, in the interest of justice and identifying the true perpetrators of crimes, that all levels of government will follow the Federal Government’s lead by working to expand access to DNA evidence . (17) Emerging DNA testing technologies can enhance the quality of justice. (18) The scientifically reliable results of DNA testing provide the certainty and finality that bolster the public’s trust in our Federal, State, and local criminal justice systems. (19) In addition to the wrongfully convicted and their families, crime victims, law enforcement, prosecutors, courts and the public are harmed whenever individuals guilty of crimes elude justice while innocent individuals are imprisoned for crimes they did not commit. (20) Our Federal, State, and local governments must enhance their technology to increase the amount of testable, biological evidence and enhance their existing post-conviction DNA testing statutes so that all applicants for whom DNA testing has the potential to prove a claim of innocence will have the opportunity to obtain such testing. (21) Properly audio and video recorded custodial interrogations provide the best evidence of the communications that occurred during an interrogation