They are reaching. Investigative genealogy has been court approved in many previous cases around the country.
6 th paragraph.
Lawyers are claiming that probable cause based on investigative genetic geneology is a violation of his 4th ammendment rights.
This is a hail mary.
According to the article, the suppression motion is based on the argument that when the police used DNA evidence as probable cause for the warrant(s), they violated the suspect’s 4th Amendment right to be secure from any unreasonable search and seizure. I suppose the question then is does a person have a reasonable expectation that their genetic information, or such DNA they might have left behind in a place outside of their dwelling, will remain private. I think not, and the argument verges on being frivolous.
He lived in Pullman, Washington, a college town, in a Hard Left, No Death Penalty state.
He deliberately crossed the state line to murder four college students in Idaho, a Republican, Death Penalty state.
Most amazing of all, he stole or borrowed a hunting knife and sheath from his father.
Somehow, he left the sheath at the crime scene. The Police found his father's DNA on the sheath.
This is stupid piled on top of even more stupid.
Idaho executes by lethal injection.
If lethal injections are outlawed, the fall back is a firing squad.
I am rooting for the firing squad. I know that has to really hurt for a second or two before you lose consciousness.
IMO, most of this case is bogus. Those kids were killed by domestic surveillance, why, I have no idea. But too much was hinky there, especially the dude following them the night before saying “They will get you for this Kaylee!”