{"id":3324,"date":"2013-06-03T14:14:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T18:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2013-06-03T14:14:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T18:14:02","slug":"supreme-court-upholds-warrantless-collection-of-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/06\/supreme-court-upholds-warrantless-collection-of-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Upholds Warrantless Collection Of DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SCOTUSbuilding_1st_Street_SE.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2865\" alt=\"supreme court\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SCOTUSbuilding_1st_Street_SE-300x212.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SCOTUSbuilding_1st_Street_SE-300x212.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SCOTUSbuilding_1st_Street_SE-150x106.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SCOTUSbuilding_1st_Street_SE-400x283.jpg 400w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SCOTUSbuilding_1st_Street_SE.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a Maryland law that allows police to collect DNA, without first getting a warrant, from persons who are arrested.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When officers make an arrest supported by probable cause to hold for a serious offense and bring the suspect to the station to be detained in custody, taking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestee&#8217;s DNA is, like fingerprinting and photographing, a legitimate police booking procedure that is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment,&#8221; writes Justice Anthony Kennedy in an opinion joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and associate justices Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer and Samuel Alito.<\/p>\n<p>The dissenting opinion brought together an unsual quartet: conservative Justice Antonin Scalia and liberal justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong> \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2013\/06\/03\/188291914\/supreme-court-upholds-warrantless-collection-of-dna\" target=\"_Blank\">Supreme Court Upholds Warrantless Collection Of DNA : The Two-Way : NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 By a 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a Maryland law that allows police to collect DNA, without first getting a warrant, from persons who are arrested. &#8220;When officers make an arrest supported by probable cause to hold for a serious offense and bring the suspect to the station to be detained&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[1701,1700,392],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3326,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions\/3326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}