My public defender’s office handles a lot of interesting cases. One of the most notable to come out of my office in recent years was Maryland v. King, which involved a challenge to a state law that permits the police to obtain a DNA sample of all people arrested for a crime, before any conviction and without the need for any belief that the DNA was relevant to the crime the arrestee was detained for. DNA sampling was thus just another routine booking procedure like fingerprinting, but DNA tests ...
Updated 06-04-2013 at 03:35 AM by Raistlin
Your car bursts into flames in the middle of the street about 100 feet from your house. What do you do? If your answer is "run inside, grab some Kool-Aid, and then throw the Kool-Aid on the flames," you think very similarly to alleged gang hitmen in my area.