Court Opinion

ID: 9518019
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 00:40:49.54022+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:26:57.293131
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE CARTER, specially concurring: I concur with the majority as to the issues raised but write separately on the need for the legislature to amend the statute requiring Genetic Marker Group (DNA) Testing (730 ILCS 5/5 — 4—3 (West 2004)). The legislature should grant trial courts the authority to impose on defendants the cost of DNA collections. People v. Hunter, 358 Ill. App. 3d 1085, 1097, 831 N.E.2d 1192, 1201 (2005). At present, the legislative specimen submission requirements make county government, in certain circumstances, responsible for offender compliance and, as such, represents an unfunded mandate on local government. Specimens collected for the Illinois State Police Laboratory have local cost implications which the legislature, in the exercise of its prerogative, should remedy.