The U.S. Supreme Court this week heard testimony on a landmark Maryland DNA testing law rooted in a Lower Shore rape dating back to 2003 and although no opinion has yet been rendered, at least one justice called the case the most important the high court has heard in decades.
In July 2010, Alonzo Jay King, Jr., now 29, was found guilty of first-degree rape after he broke down the door of a residence in Salisbury armed with a gun and wearing a mask over his face and sexually assaulted a 52-year-old female victim. In September 2010, King was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, but quickly appealed the conviction based on an alleged DNA sample collection that connected him to the 2003 rape in Salisbury.
In 2009, King was arrested after photographic and fingerprint evidence identified him as a suspect in an unrelated assault case. Under Maryland’s relatively new law, a DNA sample was taken and entered into the state DNA database and that DNA sample ultimately connected King to the unsolved 2003 rape case. King appealed his conviction in the rape case, arguing the DNA sample collection violated his constitutional right against unreasonable searches.
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Commit a crime, and seemingly get away with it. Years later, commit a crime that ties you to the 1st crime... cries for constitution rights? Disgrace to evolution.
ReplyDeleteHow is obtaining DNA when a crime is committed any different than taking fingerprints? Same thing, just more high tech. They still scan the finger prints to tie you to other crimes. DNA is just more definitive.
ReplyDeleteDrop him in a vat at the Salisbury Sewage Treatment Plant with the rest of the s--t. I got your constitutional rights for you g.
ReplyDeleteHis DNA should be splattered all over some concrete wall by way of jacketed hollow points. And that's as warm and fuzzy as I can get on this subject.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he would get more pity if he said something like..."This isn't fair... just like when I was 19 & broke down that 52yr old woman's door, & raped her at gunpoint.You can't make ME feel like a victim."
ReplyDeletef jacketed hollow points
ReplyDeleteWouldn't regular hollow pts be better? They wouldn't pass thru the body, expand more and cause more pain and damage.
why argue semantics just to get the bastard off. THROW away the key!
ReplyDeleteBetter yet, execute him! Oh, that's right. There's no photoshopped picture or video or eyewitness (what legislators decided was necessary for a death penalty case)as proof. (like there ever is)
It sounds to me taking a sample from a rapist in order to check him for other rapes is just about as "reasonable" as a search could get. Maybe if he didn't feel comfortable with the swab method, We could use 5:46's method as a "plan B". I'd use fmj ammo, though. passes through with less damage so it takes longer to bleed him out!
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