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Constitutional Law,
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Civil Litigation

Feb. 19, 2021

Irvine and O’Melveny & Myers sue over Orange County’s DNA collection practice

The district attorney is requiring DNA samples as part of plea deals in misdemeanor cases, the plaintiffs said, adding the lawsuit seeks to curb the practice and for the destruction of collected samples.

UC Irvine School of Law's Civil Rights Litigation Clinic is asking the Orange County Superior Court to order the district attorney to stop collecting DNA samples from misdemeanor defendants and to destroy more than 182,000 such records the plaintiffs say has been collected.

Filed on behalf of taxpayers, the lawsuit alleges that the prosecutors' office headed by DA Todd Spitzer has coerced misdemeanor defendants into providing DNA s...

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