PEOPLE v. PEPPERS

No. 1-03-2543.

817 N.E.2d 1152 (2004)

352 Ill. App.3d 1002

288 Ill.Dec. 502

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Willie PEPPERS, Defendant-Appellant.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Second Division.

September 30, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Pelletier, Deputy Defender, and Maya Szilak, Assistant Appellate Defender, Chicago, for Appellant.

Richard A. Devine, State's Attorney of Cook County, Chicago (Renee Goldfarb, Margaret J. Campos, and Michelle L. Feola, of counsel), for Appellee.


Justice WOLFSON delivered the opinion of the court:

This garden variety drug case raises a Fourth Amendment question that has commanded the attention of federal and state courts across the nation. The same answer keeps coming up — the government can require a convicted felon to undergo a blood or saliva test for submission to state and national DNA databanks without individualized suspicion that the felon has committed some other crime. That is our answer in...

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