When due process becomes gauche...

ideas like this aren't immediately discarded as idiotic.

(Emily Ramshaw, Bill Whiter errr...Texas Tribune, 02/22/10)

The attorney who filed a lawsuit against the state for storing infants' blood samples without consent is demanding that Texas recover hundreds of baby blood spots turned over to a military lab to build a national — and someday international — mitochondrial DNA database.

So is "your DNA is on file" the 21st Century equivalent of "Show me your papers?"

What does it say about "innocent until proven guilty" if a blood sample is entered into a criminal DNA database upon birth?