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A divided Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday that it's constitutional for police to take DNA swabs from suspects who are arrested but not yet convicted of a crime. The court compared such DNA sampling to fingerprinting when a suspect is booked.
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The case was an early win for Governor Martin O'Malley: an expansion of Maryland's DNA database to include all arrestees, hoping to match suspects to…
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