Court’s Ruling on Defense Motion to Suppress (State of Idaho v. David Dalrymple)

Prosecuting Attorney’s Office, Canyon County, ID | May 3, 2024

Order denying defense’s motion to suppress genetic information in an Idaho murder-sexual offense case that occurred in 1982. The trial court denied the defense’s motions to suppress citing no reasonable expectation of privacy in hair collected at the crime scene or use of publicly available DNA information contained in genealogic databases. Additionally, the trial court upheld that a DNA sample obtained from the defendant after arrest by means of a search warrant, was lawful, and that the Idaho Constitution does not limit what can be done to a DNA sample that is lawfully collected (e.g., for use in generating a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism [SNP] profile).

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State of Idaho v. David Dalrymple – Case Documents

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