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How the Fourth Amendment Impacts Your DNA Rights

How the Fourth Amendment Impacts Your DNA Rights In 2006, Daniel Marquez was arrested in Ventura County for an alleged drug possession offense. His DNA sample was collected four days later without a warrant and without his consent. In 2008, Orange County investigators obtained DNA evidence from a robbery that matched Marquez’s DNA profile in the database. Marquez, who was on felony probation at that time, had voluntarily provided this…

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