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A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday said police can routinely take DNA from people they arrest, equating a DNA cheek swab to other common jailhouse procedures like fingerprinting.<\/p>\n

\u201cTaking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestee DNA is, like fingerprinting and photographing, a legitimate police booking procedure that is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment,\u201d Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the court\u2019s five-justice majority.<\/p>\n

But the four dissenting justices said that the court was allowing a major change in police powers.<\/p>\n

\u201cMake no mistake about it: because of today\u2019s decision, your DNA can be taken and entered into a national database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason,\u201d conservative Justice Antonin Scalia said in a sharp dissent which he read aloud in the courtroom.<\/p>\n

At least 28 states and the federal government now take DNA swabs after arrests. But a Maryland court was one of the first to say that it was illegal for that state to take Alonzo King\u2019s DNA without approval from a judge, saying King had \u201ca sufficiently weighty and reasonable expectation of privacy against warrantless, suspicionless searches.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the high court\u2019s decision reverses that ruling and reinstates King\u2019s rape conviction, which came after police took his DNA during an unrelated arrest. Kennedy wrote the decision, and was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer. Scalia was joined in his dissent by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.<\/p>\n

Getting DNA swabs from criminals is common. All 50 states and the federal government take cheek swabs from convicted criminals to check against federal and state databanks, with the court\u2019s blessing. The fight at the Supreme Court was over whether that DNA collection could come before conviction and without a judge issuing a warrant.<\/p>\n

via My Way News \u2013 Court: Police can take DNA swabs from arrestees<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Is this a promising crime-fighting tool or a grave challenge to civil liberties?<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"