Vore v. U.S. Dept. of Justice.

• Position: Department of Justice's violation of civil rights - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

DNA

Vore v. U.S. Dept. of Justice, 281 F.Supp.2d 1129 (D.Ariz. 2003). A federal prisoner who was forced to provide a DNA sample under the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000, sought declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the Act violated his rights under the ex post facto clause and under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. The district court held that non-consensual extraction of DNA from the prisoner was required...