Defense attorneys, civil rights and civil liberties groups lined up again this week to testify against bills calling for suspects arrested in violent crimes to submit to DNA tests.

The latest DNA bills are both broader and narrower than Gov. Martin O?Malley?s original proposal. Opponents call the proposed bills violations of constitutional protections against “unreasonable searches and seizures.”

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