CANNON v. DEPT. OF PROB. & PARDON

No. 26256.

371 S.C. 581 (2007)

641 S.E.2d 429

John Hall CANNON, Petitioner, v. SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PROBATION, PAROLE AND PARDON SERVICES, Respondent.

Supreme Court of South Carolina.

Decided January 29, 2007.

Rehearing Denied March 7, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Harpootlian and Graham L. Newman, of Richard A. Harpootlian, P.A., of Columbia, for petitioner.

Deputy Director for Legal Services Teresa A. Knox, Assistant Chief Legal Counsel J. Benjamin Aplin, and Legal Counsel Tommy Evans, Jr., of Columbia, for respondent.


Acting Chief Justice MOORE:

Petitioner instituted a declaratory judgment action to determine whether the South Carolina Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Identification Record Database Act1 (the Act) required him, as a condition of his parole, to submit a DNA sample to the state's database. The trial court held the Act applied to petitioner and required him to submit a sample. The court further held the Act did not violate the ex post facto...

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