DONALD E. LANDRY & others
v.
ATTORNEY GENERAL & others; WILLIAM BATES, intervener.
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
March 1, 1999.
April 13, 1999.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Rosemary S. Gale, Assistant Attorney General (Pamela L. Hunt, Assistant Attorney General, with her) for the defendants.
Benjamin H. Keehn, Committee for Public Counsel Services (John Reinstein with him) for the plaintiffs.
Sandra F. Bloomenthal & Robert T. Bloomenthal, for the intervener, were present but did not argue.
The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:
Lori B. Andrews, Michelle Hibbert, & Harold J. Krent for Institute for Science, Law and Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology.
Tracey Maclin & John F. Palmer for Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
Toni G. Wolfman, Colin J. Zick, & Nancy N. Serrano for The Council for Responsible Genetics.
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., of the District of Columbia, Emily Hughes, of Iowa, Mary Prosser, & Amy R. Goldstein for Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School & another.
David Wirth, of New York, & Josephine Ross for Owen M. Kupperschmid Holocaust Human Rights Project of Boston College Law School & another.
Carolyn Baker Ringel, for Senators Cheryl A. Jacques & James P. Jajuga, & Wendy J. Murphy, for Jane Doe, Inc., joined in a brief.
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.
GREANEY, J.
In these consolidated appeals,3 we are concerned with challenges made by the plaintiffs to the validity of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) database statute, St. 1997, c. 106, codified for the most part at G. L. c. 22E, §§ 1-15 (Act). A judge in the Superior Court concluded that the involuntary taking of blood samples from the plaintiffs, in accordance with the directives of the Act, violates both the Fourth Amendment...
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