State v. Glynn

LARSON, J.:

This direct appeal of Rico L. Glynn’s jury convictions of aggravated kidnapping, rape, and aggravated criminal sodomy raises a first impression issue in Kansas of whether deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing evidence lawfully obtained in a different case may be utilized in this or a separate case to establish necessary elements of a criminal prosecution.

We hold there is no constitutional violation or infringement of any rights of privacy when the police use a DNA profile lawfully obtained in one case to investigate and charge the DNA donor in a subsequent and different case or cases.