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| Court upholds use of inmates' DNA |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 07/19/2004 |
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A DNA databank that has allowed the state to connect suspects to more than 130 unsolved crimes is constitutional and does not violate the rights of prison inmates, who are required to submit to DNA testing, Maryland's highest court ruled. The decision by the Court of Appeals was issued last Tuesday - the same day that Anne Arundel County police announced that they had used a DNA sample to link a convicted murderer to the killings of three women in the 1980s and 1990s. The appeals court reversed a ruling in Montgomery County Circuit Court that the law requiring people convicted of serious crimes to submit to DNA testing violated protections against unreasonable searches and seizures contained in the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The decision from Maryland's highest court was announced in a brief order that said a majority of the judges agreed that the lower court ruling was incorrect. The order did not say how the seven judges voted on the decision and did not give reasons for the ruling. Those will come in a written opinion to be issued later. |
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