In an op-ed, Marissa Boyer Bluestine, legal director for the Philadelphia Innocence Project at Temple's Beasley School of Law, argued that a recent contested murder conviction exposes a flaw in Pennsylvania's criminal justice system. "Pennsylvania is among a minority of states without regulations on the retention of physical evidence or public records," she wrote. "It is also one of the few with blanket prohibitions against disclosing documents related to criminal investigations."