Ninth Circuit Upholds Indefinite Retention of DNA Samples: But Why Retain Them?

Having considered the legal basis and justifications for allowing convicted offenders to demand that the DNA samples taken from them be remo...

More on the Population-wide Database

Chris Halikes , posted a comment on yesterday's blog posting about expanding the DNA database to the entire population. He expressed the...

On the Hypothetical Population-wide DNA Database

The August ABA Journal landed in my mailbox. Usually, I ask reporters to check with me on the wording before quoting. Alas, I neglected to ...

Contamination or Sasquatch in Forensic Laboratories -- Which Is it?

DNA Diagnostics, Inc. , is “a laboratory that provides multi-species testing including human as well as animal DNA testing for individuals, ...

Good Point, Bad Math: DNA Database Statistics Misunderstood (Again)

In a New York Time s op-ed article, High-Tech, High-Risk Forensics , Hastings Law School Professor Osagie K. Obasogie mentions a false arre...

Ninth Circuit Upholds Indefinite Retention of DNA Samples: More Problems with Judge Reinhardt’s Dissenting Opinion

In United States v. Kriesel , No. 11–30197, 2013 WL 3242293 (9th Cir. June 28, 2013), Judge Stephen Reinhardt characterized the court’s reje...

Ninth Circuit Upholds Indefinite Retention of DNA Samples: The Dissent’s Perception of the Loss of Privacy in Kriesel III

Reading the dissent in the latest round of United States v. Kriesel , one would think that the Fourth Amendment is no more.  “No other case,...