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Standing To Challenge Familial Searches Of Commercial Dna Databases, Hillary L. Kody
Standing To Challenge Familial Searches Of Commercial Dna Databases, Hillary L. Kody
William & Mary Law Review
In April 2018, police officers arrested Joseph James DeAngelo. DeAngelo, the officers claimed, was the “Golden State Killer,” a man who committed dozens of murders and over fifty sexual assaults in California in the 1970s and 1980s. The Golden State Killer had long eluded police, even though his DNA profile linked him to dozens of violent crimes. While law enforcement officials from several jurisdictions in California had collected his DNA from crime scenes, the Golden State Killer’s crimes predated modern DNA analysis. Police found little use for the profile without a suspect’s profile to compare to it.
Nearly forty years …