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Article: Genetic privacy, abandonment, and DNA dragnets: is Fourth Amendment jurisprudence adequate?(Essays)
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- The Hastings Center Report
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Last week, you killed someone. You meticulously removed any evidence which might link you to the crime. You are still the prime suspect, but you're not worried. The police have nothing, not even probable cause to search your apartment. You are literally getting away with murder. But you have a nagging cold with an awful cough. On your way out the door one morning, you spit some phlegm on the sidewalk. A few days later, you find yourself under arrest and wondering what went wrong.
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