our statute like statutes all across the country said all you can do with the dna hit is look at some crime that had been committed, a sample from some crime, or identify a missing person. the next thing that happens when they can t get legislation through as they want, all of a sudden the commission i m on and my colleague, we get outvoted, and they say, okay, we re going to start doing partial matching or familial searching. they start looking at your family members. i wonder what he thinks about that, because i m telling you, people are doing that without statutory obligation. obviously there is a difference between what is constitutional and what is wise policy and how it s administered. co-founder of the innocent project and professor at yale law school. thank you, gentlemen. really appreciate it.
that s my greatest concern here. i will not debate for all people who i have enormous respect for the debate with scalia about the meaning of the want requirement and whether he s inventing that or others have invented that overtime. let me get to the reasonableness argument. i personally am not particularly thrilled by the idea that the state has everybody s dna in this day and age. let me give you a perspective. i have been involved in this dna database implementation from the beginning. when they were sequencing the genomes about the ethical and social implications and what you may or may not do. i watched the statutes being implemented on the commissioner. think about this. our statute like statutes all across the country said all you can do with the dna hit is look
kids and bring them into the station one at a time and interrogate them excessively and get kids to confess. there was another famous case around the same time. ryan harris where two of the youngest boys ever accused of murder around that time were railroaded and ladier freed as well. you have young african-american boys being accused of crimes and how did they get targeted here? it s interesting that you mention that case. same cop got the false confessions in that case was involved in two of the false confessions here. you know what happens is that particularly juveniles aring isable or compliant and after you question them a number of hours and the parents are not there, you can get them to admit something. no question from the dna hit which is extraordinary that this guy had killed two other women
2009, crossing the cokely bridge in charlottesville, virginia, after leaving a metallica concert at the john paul jones arena. her skeletonized remains were found at a farm three months away and her killer is still at large. this summer, police investigators had a d.n.a. hit from morgan s crime scene that matched a 2005 rape case this fairfax, virginia, and they released this composite sketch of the suspect. but still no, arrests have been made. morgan s mother told me yesterday she thinks there were at least two people involved and she hopes one of them comes forward soon, because killing an innocent girl is a big secret for two people to keep between them forever. while police search for answers, harringtons wants to make sure their daughter s story stays alive. they are releasing a memorial and they are building a school in africa in her name. they spent her ashes to places around the world she dreamed