Law Enforcement Officers Permitted To Take DNA Cheek Swabs From Arrestees
6/7/13
By: Ali Sabzevari The United States Supreme Court has continued to expand the thought that bodily intrusions constitute a search under the Fourth Amendment. The Supreme Court has applied the Fourth Amendment to police efforts to draw blood, scraping an arrestee’s fingernails to obtain trace evidence, and even to a breathalyzer test. Recently, however, the…