United States Supreme Court

When officers make an arrest supported by probable cause to hold for a serious offense and bring the suspect to the station to be detained in custody, taking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestee's DNA is, like fingerprinting and photographing, a legitimate police booking procedure that is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/03/2013
• Published 06/03/2013

Judges

• KENNEDY

Court

• United States Supreme Court

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