blood or being more invasive than that. that s right. the folks who oppose, what you might call dna fingerprinting, they say fingerprinting is identification, trying to identify who is in police custody. the dna swab, the purpose is to solve cold cases. they would argue if law enforcement is trying to solve other cases, there should be a higher justification than simply trying to i.d. who is in police custody. but there s been a tremendously effective law enforcement technique, and justice alito, who is skeptical of the challenge to it, noted this could be one of the most important criminal procedure cases in decades. steven engel, very interesting discussion as always. thank you very much, as you ll be watching these cases with us over the next month. indeed. thank you for having me. in today s office politics, natalie morales, she shares why she s got one of the best jobs in television and why her office couch doubles as a closet. but first i asked her if she
detectives how he lured young etan from the school bus stop at west broadway and prince street, with the promise of a soda. he then led him into the basement of the bodega, choked him there, and disposed of the body by putting it into a plastic bag and placing it into the trash. we re going to be joined in just a moment by lisa cohen, after etan the 2009 book is considered the definitive work on this case and it s 33 years to the day, this is a day, may 25th, that is the national missing children s day, it was named this day by president ronald reagan, the first day really that a national movement of awareness about missing children began, and it s 33 years ago to the day that this little boy disappeared, presumed killed, and now finally an arrest in this case, a case that honestly, obsessed the nation and when you think about it, this is a little boy, 6 years old, who walked to school, for the first time allowed to walk to the bus stop. because of this case, another case