{"id":8780,"date":"2013-05-23T12:44:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T12:44:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T12:44:22","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8780","title":{"rendered":"New law review article: Maryland v. King: The Fourth Amendment Spirals down the Double Helix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitara V. Witanachchi, <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarship.law.duke.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1101&amp;context=djclpp_sidebar\">Maryland v. King: The Fourth Amendment Spirals down the Double Helix<\/a> for Duke Law Review:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Maryland v. King, the United States Supreme Court will consider the constitutionality of Maryland\u2019s DNA Collection Act (the Act), which enables law enforcement to obtain DNA samples of arrestees, enter the samples into a database, and compare the samples to unknown DNA profiles for possible matches. Specifically, the Court will consider whether DNA testing  individuals arrested for violent crimes violates the Fourth Amendment right to freedom from unreasonable search and seizure. The novelty of the question before the Court comes from the Act\u2019s application to arrestees\u2014the Court will examine the nature of arrestees\u2019 privacy expectations as implicated by DNA testing. The Court will also consider the efficacy of DNA testing as a law enforcement tool as well as its facilitation of compelling government interests\u2014resolving unsolved crimes and aiding the law enforcement efforts of other states and of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Upon balancing arrestees\u2019 privacy interests against the government\u2019s interests in obtaining arrestees\u2019 DNA, the Court will likely find the government\u2019s interests to be stronger. Thus, the Court will hold post-arrest DNA testing reasonable and the Act constitutional within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And King should be decided any day now. It was argued February 26th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8780\">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-8780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780","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=8780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}