Twelve years ago, the Supreme Court held in a 5-4 decision in Maryland v. King that police departments could perform cheek swabs on people they take into custody and use the DNA sample for criminal investigations. The case is memorable not only for its ruling, but for the vivid dissent by Justice Antonin Scalia and three of the court’s liberals at the time. In a strange turn of events, however, the actual decision in King may turn out to be less legally significant than a then-largely unnoticed

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