Legal Opinion
Landry v. Attorney General
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 13, 1999PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreaney, J.
In these consolidated appeals,3 we are concerned with challenges made by the plaintiffs to the validity of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) database statute, St. 1997, c. 106, codified for the most part at G. L. c. 22E, §§ 1-15 (Act). A judge in the Superior Court concluded that the involuntary taking of blood samples from the plaintiffs, in accordance with the directives of the Act, violates both the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and art. 14 of the Declaration of Rights of the Massachusetts Constitution. Based on this conclusion, the judge granted the plaintiffs a…
2Cases cited38 opinions
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3Cited by50 opinions
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