PEOPLE v. BUZA

No. S223698.

4 Cal.5th 658 (2018)

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

Supreme Court of California.

April 2, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Bradley O'Connell , Kathryn Seligman , under appointments by the Supreme Court; and Janice Wellborn , under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

Michael T. Risher ; Joseph R. Grodin ; Paul Hastings , Peter C. Meier , Eric A. Long and Jamie L. Williams for American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Hanni Fakhoury , Jennifer Lynch and Lee Tien for Electronic Frontier Foundation as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Linda F. Robertson and Jennifer Friedman for California Public Defenders Association, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice and Los Angeles County Public Defender as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Daniel J. Broderick , David Porter and Rachelle D. Barbour for Federal Public Defender of the Eastern District of California and National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown Jr. , Kamala D. Harris and Xavier Becerra , Attorneys General, Edward C. DuMont , State Solicitor General, Dane R. Gillette and Gerald A. Engler , Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Jeffrey M. Laurence , Assistant Attorney General, Steven T. Oetting and Michael J. Mongan , Deputy State Solicitors General, Max Carter-Oberstone , Associate Deputy State Solicitor General, Joyce Blair , Stan Helfman and Enid A. Camps , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Fulbright & Jarowski, Norton Rose Fulbright US , Eric A. Herzog , Tillman James Breckenridge and Jonathan S. Franklin for DNA Saves as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Steve Cooley and Jackie Lacey , District Attorneys (Los Angeles), Irene Wakabayashi , Steven Katz , Phyllis C. Asayama and Roberta Schwartz , Deputy District Attorneys, for Los Angeles County District Attorney as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Jan Scully , District Attorney (Sacramento), Anne Marie Schubert , Deputy District Attorney; W. Scott Thorpe , Mark Zahner and Albert C. Locher for California District Attorneys Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Jones & Mayer, Martin J. Mayer , James Touchstone and Deborah Pernice-Knefel for California State Sheriffs' Association, California Police Chiefs' Association and California Peace Officers' Association as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Hill Wallack, Christopher H. Asplen ; Newton Rimmel and Ronald F. Rimmel for Global Alliance for Rapid DNA Testing as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Tony Rackauckas , District Attorney (Orange), Jim Tanizaki and Camille Hill , Assistant District Attorneys, Scott G. Scoville , Tammy Sprugeon , Andrew E. Katz , Katherine David and Nancy Hayashida , Deputy District Attorneys, for Orange County District Attorney as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

In 2004, California voters passed Proposition 69 (Prop. 69, as approved by voters, Gen. Elec. (Nov. 2, 2004), known as the "DNA Fingerprint, Unsolved Crime and Innocence Protection Act" (DNA Act)) to expand existing requirements for the collection of DNA identification information for law enforcement purposes...

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