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DNA files do not invade privacy, court says

Montana Gazette:

The state crime lab did not violate Tony Notti’s privacy when it linked evidence from two unrelated DNA files to identify him as the killer of a hitchhiking Vietnam veteran in 2000, the Montana Supreme Court has ruled.

The court, citing the doctrine of “inevitable discovery,” unanimously refused to overturn Notti’s 80-year prison sentence for murdering Richard Slawek near an Interstate 90 rest area east of Butte on May 20, 2000.