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For more than 40 years the Historic Documents series has made primary source research easy by presenting full primary documents and excerpts from documents on the important events of each year for the United States and the world. Each volume includes approximately 70 events with well over 100 documents from the previous year, from official or other influential reports and surveys, to speeches from leaders and opinion makers, to court cases, legislation, testimony, and much more.
Historic Documents is renowned for the well-written and informative background, history, and context it provides for each document. Each volume begins with an insightful essay that sets the year's events in context, and each document or group of documents is preceded by a comprehensive introduction that provides background information on the event. Full-source citations are provided. Readers have easy access to material through a detailed, thematic table of contents and a cumulative five-year index that directs them to related material in earlier volumes.
Supreme Court Rules on DNA Collection: June 3, 2013
Supreme Court Rules on DNA Collection: June 3, 2013
In Maryland v. King, the U.S. Supreme Court faced yet another issue arising from the collision of rapidly evolving new technologies and traditional constitutional law. Currently, all fifty states require the DNA testing of anyone who is convicted of a felony. This case, instead, addressed whether the government can collect DNA from those who are merely arrested for a serious crime but not yet convicted of that crime. The case arose in Maryland, which is one of twenty-eight states and the federal government with laws allowing such DNA testing of arrestees. A sharply divided court, with its usual political divisions scrambled, allowed the taking of DNA samples from ...
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