SCOTUS Upholds Maryland DNA Collection Law

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Monday June 03, 2013 · 8:16 AM PDT

2013/06/03 · 08:16

http://www.supremecourt.gov/...

Maryland v. King. In a case that legal nerds (such as myself) have been eagerly anticipating, the Court has upheld a Maryland law allowing law enforcement agencies to collect the DNA of suspects arrested in connection with certain violent crimes. As is typical in Fourth Amendment cases, the Court was not split along the usual ideological lines - the majority consisted of Kennedy, Roberts, Thomas, Alito, and Breyer. Scalia, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan dissented.

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