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Legal Fellow, Meese Center The police did not need a warrant to query the public consumer genetics website, as some privacy advocates and legal scholars have argued. Ashley Cooper / Getty Images
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Police don’t need a warrant to collect abandoned DNA at a crime scene . and don’t need a warrant to query CODIS because it is a government database.
A criminal who leaves his DNA at a crime scene does not have standing under the Fourth Amendment to complain about what a distant relative does with her own DNA.
Law enforcement officials should not be required to obtain a warrant to search third-party genetics websites that allow for public access.
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NorCal Rapist sentenced to 897 years for kidnapping, sexually assaulting women
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Roy Charles Waller appears in Sacramento County Superior Court last month, when he was found guilty of being the NorCal Rapist, who attacked nine women in their homes between 1991 and 2006.Paul Kitagaki Jr. / Sacramento Bee
SACRAMENTO Roy Charles Waller, the notorious NorCal Rapist, was sentenced to 897 years in state prison Friday for attacking, kidnapping and sexually assaulting nine women in Northern California over a 15-year period.
Waller, 60, sat motionless, staring at the table in front of him, for more than an hour as several victims described in court how he had tortured and raped them in their homes.