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DIAL v. VAUGHN

733 A.2d 1 (1999)

Ertle DIAL, Petitioner, v. Mr. Donald T. VAUGHN, Superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at Graterford; Mike Fisher, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania State Police, Respondents.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided May 20, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

No appearance entered for petitioner.

Joel M. Ressler, Senior Deputy AG, Harrisburg, for respondent.

Before COLINS, President Judge, and DOYLE, J., McGINLEY, J., SMITH, J., PELLEGRINI, J., FRIEDMAN, J. and LEADBETTER, J.

LEADBETTER, Judge.

By a petition under our original jurisdiction,1 Ertle Dial, an inmate at Graterford SCI, challenges the constitutionality of the requirement that he submit a blood sample for DNA testing pursuant to the DNA Detection of Sexual and Violent Offenders Act (Act).2 This is an issue of first impression. Dial contends that the Act, by retroactively adding...

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