PEOPLE v. BUZA

No. A125542.

231 Cal.App.4th 1446 (2014)

180 Cal. Rptr. 3d 753

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. MARK BUZA, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

December 3, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan Soglin , J. Bradley O'Connell and Kathryn Seligman , under appointments by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Michael T. Risher ; Paul Hastings , Peter C. Meier , Eric A. Long , Jamie L. Williams ; University of California Hastings College of the Law, Professor Joseph R. Grodin ; Electronic Frontier Foundation, Hanni Fakhoury ; California Public Defenders Association, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice & Los Angeles County Public Defender, Linda F. Robertson   Jennifer Friedman ; Federal Public Defender of the Eastern Dist. of CA, National Assoc. of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Daniel J. Broderick , David Porter and Rachelle D. Barbour as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. , and Kamala D. Harris , Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gerald A. Engler , Assistant Attorney General, Joyce Blair , Stan Helfman , Jeffrey M. Laurence and Enid A. Camps , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Fulbright & Jarowski, Tillman James Breckenridge and Jonathan S. Franklin for DNA Saves as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Steve Cooley , District Attorney, Irene Wakabayashi , Phyllis C. Asayama and Roberta Schwartz , Deputy District Attorneys; California District Attorneys Association and W. Scott Thorpe as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

The sole issue in this case is the constitutionality of a provision of the DNA and Forensic Identification Database and Data Bank Act of 1998, as amended (Pen. Code, § 295 et seq.) (the DNA Act),1 which requires that a DNA...

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