RFRA bars drawing blood for DNA database

[Joel Sogol]

Here's a new twist on the subject:

Ninth Circuit reinstates federal criminal defendant's challenge under the
Religious Freedom Restoration Act to having to provide a blood sample for
the federal DNA database: You can access today's per curiam decision of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth <http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/>  Circuit
at this
<http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/newopinions.nsf/230D5EB769385190882573B4008
102F2/$file/0650506.pdf?openelement>  link. Unfortunately for the defendant,
there are many ways to harvest his DNA, and it is unlikely that his religion
proscribes them all.
Posted at 01:11 PM  <http://howappealing.law.com/121807.html#030752> by
Howard <mailto:appellateblog at hotmail.com>  Bashman 

 

 

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