July 19 – The Baltimore Sun
Steven D. Schwinn, an associate professor at Chicago’s John Marshall Law School, said Maryland’s Court of Appeals was right to stop the collections of DNA samples after a suspect is arrested.
Schwinn said law enforcement can find a way to convict the guilty without relying on post-arrest DNA. There are other ways to collect such evidence that he doesn’t believe would be banned under the ruling.
Police could ask the suspect to submit to a DNA test, for example, or buy the suspect fast food during an interrogation and collect DNA off a soda cup, he said.
“The police can get the same result even by respecting the Fourth Amendment, and that’s what they ought to do,” Schwinn said recently.
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