Supreme Court Permits DNA Sampling of Persons Arrested, But Not Yet Convicted, in Maryland v. King

We wrote earlier this year on the Fourth Amendment issue presented in Maryland v. King: whether a Maryland statute that allows the state to obtain DNA samples via “cheek swabs” from arrested individuals, as one step in the state’s routine booking and processing procedure, is an invalid warrantless search.

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