The U.S. Supreme Court is set to meet privately on Friday to discuss whether Americans have a constitutional right against surreptitious collection of their DNA. Glenn J. Raynor was convicted of rape in 2009 in Harford County Court; his DNA ...
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A convicted rapist is urging the Supreme Court to reverse his conviction, saying the Maryland State Police violated the Fourth Amendment by checking the DNA in perspiration he left on a chair while voluntarily answering questions at an MSP station.
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Welcome to Monday, the 223rd anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights. Here are some news items to get your week started. — Prosecution and defense cite DNA evidence in California trial of accused serial killer. — Do ...
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Read More »Saying what is true for the prosecution is true for the defense, Maryland’s top court said defendants can submit a DNA mismatch at trial only if the genetic sample undergoes an additional test that confirms the initial result.
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A man who served 20 years in prison for murder before DNA tests led to his freedom will have a second chance to sue the city of Baltimore and its police force for $15 million.
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Supreme Court may get case asking if people who voluntarily submit to police questioning surrender their claim to the sweat they leave behind on a chair.
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Read More »People who voluntarily submit to questioning in a police station relinquish any claim to the perspiration they happen to leave behind on a chair – even when detectives examine the bodily fluid for DNA linking them to a crime, a divided Maryland high court ruled Wednesday.
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Read More »An indigent Baltimore man is suing the city and its police force for arresting and holding him in jail for seven months on a rape charge for which he was never prosecuted.
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The rape investigation was going into its third year when the victim suggested that the perpetrator might have been someone she knew.
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Read More »A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld California's law requiring people arrested for felonies to submit samples of their DNA to police.
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