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"Pennsylvania Considers Bill Requiring Pre-Trial DNA Testing"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Pennsylvania Considers Bill Requiring Pre-Trial DNA Testing by Stephen Clark on FoxNews.com: Pennsylvania is considering a bill that would expand the authority of police to collect DNA from suspects arrested for serious crimes -- to be used to find links to other open cases unrelated to the arrest. A similar federal law has already been struck down by a district court, which declared it unconstitutional. My own state has such a law, and it provides for taking DNA on arrest for certain crimes without ever showing probable cause to a judicial officer first. I spoke against the bill, but, the Arkansas legislature being the way it is, they don't care whether it is constitutional if it is for crime control.

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on March 24, 2011 (boomark / email).