Mandated DNA Collection: Is There a Limit? |
List of cases by Beverly Ginn
City Attorneys Office, Tucson, AZ
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I.
Decisions upholding a DNA indexing statute under the balancing test include:
Boling v.
Romer, 101 F.3d 1336 (10th Cir. 1996)
Cooper v.
Gammon, 943 S.W.2d 699 (Mo. Ct. App. 1997)
Dial v.
Vaughn, 733 A.2d 1 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 1999)
Doles v. State,
994 P.2d 315 (Wyo. 1999)
Gaines v.
Nevada, 116 Nev. 359, 998 P.2d 166 (Nev.), cert. denied, 531 U.S. 856, 148 L.
Ed. 2d 90, 121 S. Ct. 138 (2000)
Gilbert v.
Peters, 1994 U.S. Dist. Lexis 9215, 1994 WL 369643 (N.D. Ill. June 28, 1994),
revd on other grounds, 55 F.3d 237 (7th Cir. 1995)
Groceman v.
U.S., 2002 U.S. Dist. Lexis 11491 (N.D. Tex. 2002)
Johnson v.
Commonwealth, 259 Va. 654, 529 S.E.2d 769 (Va.), cert. denied, 531 U.S. 981
(2000)
Jones v.
Murray, 962 F.2d 302 (4th Cir.), cert. denied, 506 U.S. 977, 121 L. Ed. 2d 378,
113 S. Ct. 472 (1992)
Kansas v. Maass, 275 Kan. 328 (Kan. 2003)
Kruger v.
Erickson, 875 F. Supp. 583 (D. Minn. 1995), affd on other grounds, 77 F.3d
1071 (8th Cir. 1996)
Landry v. Attorney
General, 429 Mass. 336, 709 N.E.2d 1085 (Mass. 1999), cert. denied, 528 U.S.
1073, 145 L. Ed. 2d 663, 120 S. Ct. 785 (2000)
People v.
Calahan, 272 Ill. App. 3d 293, 649 N.E.2d 588, 208 Ill. Dec. 532 (Ill. App. Ct.
1995)
People v.
Wealer, 264 Ill. App. 3d 6, 636 N.E.2d 1129, 201 Ill. Dec. 697 (Ill. App. Ct.
1994)
Rise v.
Oregon, 59 F.3d 1556 (9th Cir. 1995), cert. denied, 517 U.S. 1160, 134 L. Ed.
2d 656, 116 S. Ct. 1554 (1996)
Ryncarz v.
Eikenberry, 824 F. Supp. 1493 (E.D. Wash. 1993)
Sanders v.
Coman, 864 F. Supp. 496 (E.D.N.C. 1994)
Shaffer v.
Saffle, 148 F.3d 1180 (10th Cir.), cert. denied, 525 U.S. 1005, 142 L. Ed. 2d
431, 119 S. Ct. 520 (1998)
Schlicher v. Peters, 103 F.3d 940 (10th Cir. 1996)
State ex rel. Juvenile Dept of Multnomah County v.
Orozco, 129 Ore. App. 148, 878 P.2d 432 (Or. Ct. App. 1994)
U.S. v.
Meier, 2002 U.S. Dist. Lexis 25755 (D. Ore. 2002)
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here to read the Amicus Curiae brief of the Criminal Justice Legal
Foundation in the 9th Circuit, supporting affirmance; filed on
13-23-2002. [PDF]
Velasquez v.
Woods, 329 F.3d 420 (5th Cir. 2003)
II.
Decisions upholding a DNA indexing statute under the special needs exception
include:
Miller v. U.S. Parole Commn, 2003 U.S. Dist.
Lexis 7325 (D. Kan. 2003)
Nicholas v. Goord, 2003 U.S. Dist. Lexis 1621
(S.D.N.Y. 2003) (magistrate recommendation)
Roe v.
Marcotte, 193 F.3d 72 (2d Cir. 1999)
Shelton v. Gudmanson, 934 F. Supp. 1048 (W.D. Wis. 1996)
State v. Olivas, 122 Wa.2d 73, 856 P.2d 1076 (Wash. 1993)
U.S. v.
Kimler, 335 F. 3d 1132 (10th Cir. 2003)
U.S. v. Reynard, 220 F. Supp. 2d 1142 (S.D. Ca.
2002)
U.S. v. Sczubelek,
255 F. Supp. 2d 315 (D. Del. 2003)
III.
Decisions striking down a DNA indexing statute as unconstitutional under the
Fourth Amendment:
U.S. v.
Miles, 228 F. Supp. 2d 1130 (E.D. Ca. 2002)
IV.
Selected secondary resource materials:
Richard P.
Shafer, Validity, Construction, and Application of DNA Analysis Backlog
Elimination Act of 2000, 42 U.S.C.A.
14135 et seq. and 10 U.S.C.A.
1565, 187 A.L.R. Fed. 373 (2003)
Robin Cheryl
Miller, Validity, Construction, and Operation of State DNA Database Statutes,
76 A.L.R. 5th 239 (2003)
Debra
Herlica, DNA Databanks: When has a good
thing gone too far?, 52 Syracuse L. Rev. 951 (2002)
Mark A.
Rothstein & Sandra Carnahan, Legal and Policy Issues in Expanding the Scope
of Law Enforcement DNA Data Banks, 67 Brook. L. Rev. 127 (2001).
Aaron P.
Stevens, Arresting Crime: Expanding the Scope of DNA Databases in America, 79
Tex. L.R. 921 (2001)
D. H. Kaye,
The Constitutionality of DNA Sampling on Arrest, 10 Cornell J.L. & Pub.
Poly 455 (2001)
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