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New law review article: "North Carolina?s Arrested Development: Fourth Amendment Problems in the DNA Database Act of 2010"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

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North Carolina’s Arrested Development: Fourth Amendment Problems in the DNA Database Act of 2010 by Lauren Hobson, 89 N.C. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2011) [sorry, the PDF link on this site does not work]. Abstract: Most Americans can probably hum a few bars of the theme song to one of television’s most successful franchises: Law & Order. Watching the ever-cynical Detective Briscoe investigate crimes alongside the good-looking Detective Logan made viewers root for police to catch New York City’s criminals. Sometimes, the “bad guys” won when the judge excluded the smoking gun from trial, introducing Americans to some of the costs to the criminal justice system in preserving defendants’ rights. As much as society hates seeing a criminal go free, maintaining a defendant’s rights before and during trial is integral to the American justice system...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on March 31, 2011 (boomark / email).