The Supreme Court debated Tuesday whether Marylands decision to collect DNA samples from people arrested for serious crimes represents an unconstitutional invasion of privacy or a crime-solving breakthrough with the potential to be the fingerprinting of the 21st century. <\/p>\n
Either way, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said, the case is perhaps the most important criminal procedure case that this court has heard in decades. <\/p>\n
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