DNA Collection Suit Might be Dismissed

The Advocate reports that MDLA Magistrate Judge Stephen Riedlinger has recommended that a civil suit filed against the East Baton Rouge Sheriff and one of his deputies be dismissed because the claim has prescribed. Magistrate Riedlinger, however, found that the plaintiff, Floyd Wagner, had his Fourth Amendment rights violated when he was coerced into giving a DNA sample during last year's hunt for the Baton Rouge serial killer. Judge Polozola is handling the case at the district level.

Posted by AJR at July 8, 2004 08:18 AM