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Opinion No. (2010)

California Attorney General Reports

Decided September 9, 2010Published

1Opinion of the Court

EDMUND G. BROWN JR. Attorney General MARC J. NOLAN Deputy Attorney General

THE HONORABLE JAN SCULLY, DISTRICT ATTORNEY FOR THE COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO, has requested an opinion on the following questions:

1. For purposes of forensic data collection under the DNA and Forensic Identification Database and Data Bank Act, may a county coroner's office1 lawfully provide the Department of Justice DNA Laboratory with access to blood specimens or other biological samples that it has obtained, in the ordinary course of its postmortem investigation, from a deceased inmate or parolee who died while under the…

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Samson v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 2006
  2. United States v. Thomas Cameron KincadeCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2004
  3. Ida Mae Whitehurst, Etc. v. Edward L. Wright, Jr., Etc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1979
  4. People v. RobinsonCalifornia Supreme Court · 2010
  5. Groceman v. United States Department of JusticeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2004

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