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NC DNA Testing Statute Upheld
Loaded on May 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1995, page 9
Past issues of PLN have reported on the legal and political issues involved in DNA testing. Several states and the federal government have passed laws in the last five years which mandate the taking of blood from prisoners in order to compile a DNA database of convicted felons. So far ...
Filed under:
DNA Testing/Samples,
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings.
Location:
North Carolina.
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