Maryland v. King
Supreme Court of the United States
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kennedy
*439 In 2003 a man concealing his face and armed with a gun broke into a woman's home in Salisbury, Maryland. He *440 raped her. The police were unable to identify or apprehend the assailant based on any detailed description or other evidence they then had, but they did obtain from the victim a sample of the perpetrator's DNA.
In 2009 Alonzo King was arrested in Wicomico County, Maryland, and charged with first- and second-degree assault for menacing a group of people with a shotgun. As part of a routine booking procedure for serious offenses, his DNA sample was taken by applying a cotton swab or…
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