With a few strokes of a pen, Gov. Bev Perdue signed away the Fourth Amendment rights of anyone charged with a violent crime.
Not convicted, mind you, but charged. So much for presumption of innocence.
At a special bill-signing ceremony on Greenville, the governor inked her approval of the DNA Database Act, which gives deputies from across the state the authority to take cheek swabs from anyone charged with a violent felony or misdemeanor sex crime, according to the Gaston Gazette.
The bill, although a bi-partisan effort, didn’t pass smoothly. However, it did have the support of Attorney General Roy Cooper as well as law enforcement, district attorneys and victim advocates.
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