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Incarcerated people in Virgina file suit against the collection of DNA for the Federal Bureau of Investigation's database.

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The court upholds the statute requiring mandatory blood samples from all who are convicted of a crime. The case rules that felons have no privacy rights that would prevent these seizures, and that the government's need to protect the public from those convicted of a crime is more important than the rights of those convicted.