Garcia-Torres v. State

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

Arturo Garcia-Torres was convicted of rape, attempted rape, and two counts of burglary and was sentenced to thirty-six years in prison. Garcia-Torres challenges the use of DNA evidence gathered when police obtained a cheek swab. The parties having passed over the question whether the swab was a search requiring separate probable cause, we analyze the issue under ordinary doctrine of the Fourth Amendment and Article 1, Section 11 of the Indiana Constitution. We affirm the conviction.

Facts and Procedural History

Garcia-Torres’s first victim was M.S., a twenty-one year old…