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| DNA database ruled legal |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/30/2006 |
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MEMPHIS, TN - The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that the state's DNA database of convicted felons is legal. The judgment involved two different inmates who were charged with rape after a DNA sample was matched to genetic evidence found from the sexual assaults. The public defender had argued that the collection of blood samples from jailed felons amounted to a search and seizure without a reason to justify it. Justice Cornelia A Clark wrote that taking a blood sample was a search, but it does not violate the Constitution...Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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