Roe v. Marcotte

POOLER, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs, imprisoned upon their conviction of sexual offenses under Connecticut state law, challenge the constitutionality of Conn. Gen.Stat. § 54-102g, which, among other things, requires all convicted sexual offenders who were incarcerated on the statute’s effective date to submit a blood sample for analysis and inclusion in a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) data bank. Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (Squatrito, J.) dismissing their challenges to the statute’s constitutionality. They argue that the…