Legal Opinion
Alfaro v. Terhune
California Court of Appeal
Decided May 16, 2002No. C034286PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
SCOTLAND, P. J.
Eight women who have been sentenced to death in state criminal proceedings (hereafter plaintiffs) challenge the implementation of the DNA and Forensic Identification Data Base and Data Bank Act of 1998 (hereafter the Act). (Pen. Code, § 295 et seq.; further section references are to this code unless otherwise specified.) Among other things, the Act states that any person who is convicted of a specified crime must “provide two specimens of blood, a saliva sample, right thumbprints, and a full palm print impression of each hand for law enforcement identification analysis.”…
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