Supreme Court questions legality of warrantless DNA collection 

Posted: 3:06 pm Wed, February 27, 2013
By Kimberly Atkins
Tags: Chief Justice John Roberts, DNA, Fourth Amendment, Samuel Alito

As they grilled the lawyers arguing before them on the issue of whether police can collect DNA samples from unconvicted arrestees without a warrant, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged just how high the stakes are “I think this is, perhaps, the most important criminal procedure case that this Court has heard in decades,” ...