Legal Opinion
United States v. Weikert
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 9, 2007No. 19-2279PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
This case presents a question of first impression in this circuit: is it a violation *3of the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures to require an individual on supervised release to provide a blood sample for purposes of creating a DNA profile and entering it into a centralized database? Agreeing with the eleven other circuits that have held similarly, we hold that it is not. In doing so, we interpret the Supreme Court’s decision in Samson v. California, — U.S. -, 126 S.Ct. 2193, 165 L.Ed.2d 250 (2006), to require that we join the majority of…
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