Posted on 02/22/2005 11:51:29 AM PST by Rakkasan1
A top Republican legislator called Monday for every suspect arrested on a felony charge in Minnesota to be subjected to a DNA test that would be analyzed and made part of a database to assist police in future investigations.
"DNA is the fingerprint of the 21st century," House Majority Leader Erik Paulsen, R-Eden Prairie, said in a statement. "This legislation will help us solve and prevent crimes. It will put guilty criminals in jail, exonerate the innocent and seek more immediate justice for victims."
Under current state law, which is scheduled to expire in June, defendants convicted of felony offenses must submit to DNA testing.
Paulsen's bill would maintain that requirement and extend it to all people arrested on suspicion of committing violent or predatory offenses. In a second phase, which would become effective in 2010, all people arrested for any kind of felony would be subject to the DNA testing.
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'if you haven't done anything wrong, you shouldn't have a problem with giving DNA' always sounded so much better in its original German dialect.(paraphrase credit to Pat Buchanan)
The police state grows.
BTW: This DNA is also used to get at your relatives.
Hard to do for me since I came out of an orphanage.
DNA is more reliable and less intrusive than fingerprinting. Do you have a problem with fingerprinting all felony arestees?
depends on if the government keeps the fingerprints and/or for how long after the person is cleared (if not charged)
I can foresee further making every crime a felony and
thereby everyone a suspect.
If getting "cold hits" is the goal, why not just fingerprint/test everyone ?
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