When Oscar Thwala was sentenced to life imprisonment 10 years ago on three counts of rape, two counts of kidnapping, and illegal possession of ammunition and firearms, he’d never heard of DN... Read more
With its decision in Maryland v. King [pdf], the US Supreme Court finally stepped into the debate about the use of DNA databases in the criminal justice system. The United States now has the... Read more
Authors usually like it when the Supreme Court cites their work. But a reference to a book in an opinion last week is drawing mixed reviews. The case, Maryland v. King, was about whether the... Read more
Maryland’s DNA law, which allows police to take samples of suspects’ genetic material for possible matches to other crimes, will be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court next year,... Read more
Supreme Court justices are to meet privately Friday to weigh whether they will hear a major genetic-privacy case testing whether authorities may take DNA samples from anybody arrested for a... Read more
DNA testing has taken dangerous criminals off the streets, solved decades-old homicides, exonerated the falsely accused and freed the wrongly imprisoned. “It’s an exciting time,” Ed Wall, ad... Read more
Earlier this year, Maryland’s highest court held that collection of DNA samples from people arrested but not yet convicted violated the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable se... Read more
Police in Maryland can resume collecting DNA from suspects charged — but not yet convicted — in violent crimes, and the U.S. Supreme Court might be inclined to let them do so permanently. U.... Read more
The Supreme Court signaled on Monday that it may review whether law enforcement officials may collect DNA samples from people who have been accused, but not convicted, of serious crimes. Chi... Read more
An appellate panel should limit the scope of California’s Proposition 69, which authorized DNA collection of anyone arrested on suspicion of a felony. In 2004 California voters approve... Read more