{"id":5332,"date":"2011-03-24T10:06:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T10:06:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T10:06:22","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5332","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pennsylvania Considers Bill Requiring Pre-Trial DNA Testing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2011\/03\/24\/pennsylvania-considers-requiring-pre-trial-dna-testing\/\">Pennsylvania Considers Bill Requiring Pre-Trial DNA Testing<\/a> by Stephen Clark on FoxNews.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Pennsylvania is considering a bill that would expand the authority of police to collect DNA from suspects arrested for serious crimes &#8212; to be used to find links to other open cases unrelated to the arrest. <\/p>\n<p>A similar federal law has already been struck down by a district court, which declared it unconstitutional.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My own state has such a law, and it provides for taking DNA on arrest for certain crimes without ever showing probable cause to a judicial officer first. I spoke against the bill, but, the Arkansas legislature being the way it is, they don&#8217;t care whether it is constitutional if it is for crime control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5332\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}