DNA Profile Injuries are Justiciable

The Advocate reports that a civil suit seeking the destruction of 1,800 DNA swabs and the related genetic data, which was collected during the hunt for Baton Rouge serial killer, will likely move forward. United States Magistrate Stephen Riedlinger of the MDLA has recommended that the suit not be dismissed, noting that the potential for injury is "not merely conjectural, hypothetical or contingent; rather, it is real and immediate." Judge Polozola has been assigned the case.

Posted by AJR at July 14, 2004 08:04 AM