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Article: Constitutional law - Fourth Amendment - Ninth Circuit upholds collection of DNA from parolees.(Case Note)
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- Harvard Law Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--FOURTH AMENDMENT--NINTH CIRCUIT UPHOLDS COLLECTION OF DNA FROM PAROLEES.--United States v. Kincade, 379 F.3d 813 (9th Cir. 2004) (en banc).
The expansion of DNA strands is an elegant process, an unraveling and rewrapping of helixes that biologists study with amazement and rigor. (1) The expansion of DNA crime-lab databases, while just as steady, is markedly less elegant and is generally treated with neither adequate amazement nor doctrinal rigor. Over the past decade, DNA databases have gone from minimal to gargantuan, from covering only violent sex offenders to covering hundreds of thousands of people who have committed no crime at all. (2) ...