The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that police can take a DNA sample from someone who has been arrested and charged but not convicted of a crime.
By a 5-4 vote, the court reversed a decision last April by Maryland’s highest court that overturned the 2010 conviction and life sentence of Alonzo Jay King for a rape committed seven years earlier.
The court, in an opinion written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, said the taking of DNA samples is similar to taking fingerprints.
(Reuters)
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more freedoms lost. Now the police will arrest someone just so they can get that persons DNA.
Further along our way to a police state
Chief Justice John Roberts’ Judicial Activism is the worst in modern American history.
Their judicial arrogance and contempt for the political process is appalling.
Look at our freedoms and how they are compromised by our courts.