Does the Court have jurisdiction to collect DNA profiles from arrestees, convicted offenders, and forensic evidence found at crime scenes?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Lowe, 165 Cal.Rptr.3d 107 (Cal. App. 2013):
Haskell v. Brown (2009) 677 F.Supp.2d 1187, 1190.) "CODIS collects DNA profiles provided by local laboratories taken from arrestees, convicted offenders, and forensic evidence found at crime scenes." ( King, supra, 133 S.Ct. at p.1968.)
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