The Supreme Court has another case debating our rights, with
the Maryland v. King Case; the justices had to decide whether collecting DNA
without a warrant could be admissible with the Fourth Amendment. Ultimately the court ruled that the taking of
DNA samples is no different from any other "legitimate and routine police procedures". Any person arrested of a serious crime,
regardless of their guilt, shall be unable to hold on to their right to the
privacy of their DNA.
This article was worth reading, because the court didn't
decide the way that is expected. My
assumption was a vote in favor of privacy, as in other cases where evidence is obtained
by invading rights, such as the article about thermal imaging devices, or tracking
without a warrant. Instead, allowing those
wrongly convicted to be taken advantage of.
Those wrongly convicted will have been invaded in a way that could never
be rectified.
This infringement on the people’s rights to a fair trial
first will affect the lives of the innocent falsely targeted. This article opens eyes to the changing
rights you are facing, especially as few people have considered the possibility
of having DNA taken as an American Citizen.
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