Supreme Court Upholds Taking DNA Upon Arrest

Published for NC Criminal Law on June 04, 2013.

Yesterday the Supreme Court decided a case that one Justice called “perhaps the most important criminal procedure case that this Court has heard in decades.” A bare majority of the Court ruled that the police may take DNA from those arrested for, but not yet convicted of, “serious offense[s].” The case resolves a deep split ... Read more

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