This is the Cato Deadly Podcast for Monday, June 3rd, 2013. I'm Caleb Brown.

The Supreme Court has ruled that being arrested for serious crimes means your DNA may be constitutionally

taken and placed into a government database to be checked for crimes past and

crimes future.

Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, offers his thoughts.

Maryland v King seems to be the case where Justice Kennedy is going to carve out his place

as the Supreme Court Justice who didn't get identity issues.

His starter was the Hybel decision in 2004.

He ratified the laws in some states that require people to show ID to law enforcement officers on demand, no questions asked. In that case, and in outside his

truck talking to his daughter and immediately demanded ID.

Hebel refused and ultimately was arrested his daughter

thrown on the ground.

ID had no relationship whatsoever to the battery that Dove was investigating.

He had heard that a man had hit a woman and knowing who was standing by the road would do nothing

to further that investigation.

Justice Kennedy ratified the collection of Heibel's ID by saying that

gathering ID can tell you whether somebody has a violent background,

mental illness, history of prior convictions, and so on and so forth.

But this isn't true

because he would have had to stop the investigation of the battery and

investigate Larry Hyvel to find out all these things.

So it was a strange ratification of the ID demand.

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