Opinion ID: 1057956
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Heading: DNA Collection Statute

Text: In 1994 the United States Congress empowered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to create a database of DNA profiles, see 42 U.S.C.A. § 14132 (1995), commonly referred to as the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS). In response, all fifty states enacted legislation to collect biological specimens for the purpose of creating a DNA profile of persons convicted of certain crimes, see United States v. Kincade, 379 F.3d 813, 848 (9th Cir.2004) (en banc) (Reinhardt, J., dissenting), and placed those DNA profiles in the searchable CODIS database. See Federal Bureau of Investigation, NDIS Participants, available at http://www.fbi/gov/hq/lab/codis/partstates.htm. Tennessee Code Annotated section 40-35-321 sets forth the circumstances in Tennessee under which a convicted felon will be required to submit a biological specimen for DNA analysis. Subsection (b) provides that a court sentencing a person convicted of committing or attempting to commit aggravated rape, rape, aggravated sexual battery, sexual battery, rape of a child, or incest, shall order the person to provide a biological specimen for the purpose of DNA analysis. Tenn.Code Ann. § 40-35-321(b). Furthermore, persons convicted of any felony committed on or after July 1, 1998, are to be ordered by the trial court upon sentencing to submit a biological specimen for DNA analysis. Id. at (d)(1). These biological specimens are to be forwarded to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation which shall maintain [them] as provided in § 38-6-113. [6] Id. at (b), (c), (d). Scarborough's blood was drawn, and his DNA profile developed, pursuant to these statutory provisions.