Maryland v. King

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Prologue Projects

News Commentary, News, Government

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In the movies, detectives trail a suspect until he messes up and throws his DNA-soaked paper cup into the trash. In real life, they just pretend like they don't understand the word "identify" in order to abuse the 4th Amendment.

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0:00.0	We'll hear argument next this morning in case 12-2007, Maryland versus King.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, this is Leon from Prolog Projects. On this episode of 5 to 4, the hosts are discussing
0:17.8	Maryland v King. In this 2013 case, a man was arrested for one crime, his DNA was collected, and then it led to a match for another crime.
0:28.5	In his petition to the court, the man argued that running his DNA was an unconstitutional infringement of the Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches.
0:37.0	The court was unconvinced.
0:39.0	The justices ruled it's okay to take the DNA of people arrested who are not yet convicted of a
0:44.7	crime. In a five four narrow decision the Supreme Court ruled the taking of an
0:48.9	arrestee's DNA does not constitute an unreasonable search.
0:53.1	The argument from the court is that collecting DNA is part of the process of identifying an
0:57.4	arrestee, even when that person has already been identified.
1:01.5	This is 5 to 4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.
1:07.0	Welcome to 5 to 4 where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have
1:14.8	canceled our civil liberties like a cowardly university cancelling commencement.
1:18.4	I am Peter and I'm here with Michael.
1:21.6	Hey everybody.
1:23.0	Rianin, a little too busy freeing Palestine to be with us today.
1:28.0	Actually, I think she's just sleepy, but that's part of the work.
1:31.0	You know?
1:32.0	You know, we got to recharge the batteries.
1:33.8	Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Who needs to do your job with your best friends?
1:39.2	Yeah. When you can just be napping. All right, cut that, Rach, but then send it to R.
1:44.0	All right.
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