Legal Opinion
Keith Crabbs v. Zach Scott
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 4, 2015No. 14-4068PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
Keith Crabbs sued the Franklin County Sheriff under the Fourth (and Fourteenth) Amendment for requiring him to submit to a DNA cheek swab after a jury acquitted him of voluntary manslaughter. The sheriff responded that Ohio’s sovereign immunity insulated him from the lawsuit because state law required him to take the sample. That is not quite true. In 2010, Ohio law required criminal defendants to submit a DNA sample after a felony conviction. See Ohio Rev.Code Ann. § 2901.07(B) (West 2010). Today, Ohio law requires county sheriffs to collect DNA after a felony…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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