acquiring a suspects dna is legal if the previous case is evidence for the current one. hes a murderer and rapist; how mnay loopholes and technicalities do vicious criminals need to walk the streets and rape and murder more people.  dna is as conclusive as anyevidence in the jurisprudence system we have. if this was public knowledge, the police and courts would find a way to corral him. this paticular suspect should have been picked up years ago; this paticular man was shooting his mouth off and bragging about the rape; with the security of veiled freinds posing as public servants. i wish they would pick up those souless macho freinds of his; their just as guilty.

Walsh is wrong. My DNA is nobody's business unless I am found guilty of a crime. We don't live in a Gestapo state!

Wslsh is right anyone who commits a vilent crime should give DNA samples

another azzhole off the streets.... prison he goes. good place for him... he killed someone, spend time in prison, dna should be given to anyone who has a crime list.... convicted or not convicted.... i think dna is the tool for locking up these unwanted jerks .... life goes on......

If you do not have anything to hide, then give a DNA sample... what is the big deal "sarge"....

people like you keep criminals on the streets.  

Here is how these rules protect the innocent (said with great sarcasm). An 18 year old man begins with brutally raping a woman. As of yet, he does not have a criminal history. He just turned 18. Unless willingly given, DNA can't be taken from the accused until they have been convicted. Naturally this person cannot be convicted of this particular crime without the DNA. The case is dropped because there is no proof. (They need the DNA and semen samples to prove rape) So this guy goes on and beats and rapes five others. One out of these five reports it. Once again, they cannot get his DNA without a conviction and they can't get a conviction without the DNA, and because he has no prior felonies, he looks good. This woman is able to get a plea bargain where this guy pleads guilty to harrassment misdemeanor and serves six months. He gets out and he brutally rapes and beats 10 others. They are random crimes, his victims typically strangers. They may not even have a face or a name, only a tragedy that will effect them the rest of their lives. A strong woman stands up and speaks out and they tell her she cannot have a trial because she doesn't have a strong enough case and because the guy doesn't have any prior felonies, he will only get the minimum with a plea bargain.And the cycle carries on. We can track this back to 2000, 7 years ago, which means he was 19 years old when he started. This woman's case was completely dropped. In 2004 he got a harrassment charge for assualting a woman and dragging her into an alley (what do you think his intentions were if he had been allowed to finish?) how many times he did this and to how many people who knows. He must have been flying high at the time I married him, feeling untouchable, feeling powerful and all else. He could keep getting away with it over and over and over again> he made a mistake, because he did it to his own wife. Not just rape and sodomy and harsh beating, not just unlawful imprisonment for several hours, but torture for seven hours until he tired and decided it was time to kill me with the very rope that was around my neck that he took pictures of that came into the hands of police custody. Judge Walsh wanted to completely dismiss the case. Judge Walsh didn't even want to try the case. He just wanted to dismiss it because Shoop had no prior felonies, and because the DNA that connected him to the rape in 2000 could not be used in my case. Prosecutors would not let him drop the case, they said 50,000 dollars bail. Judge Walsh let him go on 2500 bail - an attempted murderer, a very dangerous man, let go just like that. I of course had to relocate (with my two children) change name, change my entire life, and let go of all old patterns and all else, living in fear that he would find me and finish the job. For 8 months I fought for trial. I fought and I fought and I fought as getting a felony plea is near impossible. I was LUCKY to have finally gotten the felony plea of unlawful inprisonment, according to my DA. In the meantime, however, a 67 year old woman, a grandmother, fresh out of the working world and into retirement is RAPED and MURDERED! If I had not been able to get that felony plea that i fought so hard for despite rape, sodomy, unlawful inprisonment, assualt, and attempted murder, they still would not be able to use his DNA for the rape in 2000 or Nelson's murder or anyone else he would have victimized. He'd still be raping and beating and killing. Here's some humor that isn't so funny - how many rapes and murders does it take to get a man convicted of the actual crimes he committed? He has no pior felonies so he couldn't have committed an actual crime. It's a sad sad world when it takes a man being charges on 40 different accounts of sexual charges before they actually see a problem. I am completely sickened by the system, but where they're trying to throw everything off on the DNA law, they're forgetting the Syracuse Police Department that told me I was just looking for sympathy and hour prior to this man breaking into my home and doing those things, the Syracuse Police Department whom failed to pick up 3/4's of the evidence at the crime scene, and the judge who wanted to completely dismiss the case, and when he could not, he just set a very easy bail in order to release this man, and then when this man finally pled to unlawful imprisonment, the judge let him go until conviction, which isn't typical, and THAT is when Carol Nelson was brutally beaten, raped, and murdered.

CAROL WAS A DEAR FRIEND OF MINE FOR 30YRS.......NOT ONLY DID I GROW UP WITH HER CHILDREN WHOM I ADORE,BUT I ALSO HAD THE PLEASURE TO WORK WITH HER AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL HERE IN SYRACUSE (WE BOTH WORKED THE NIGHT SHIFT).....SHE WAS A WONDERFUL PARENT AND A SWEET LOVING "NANNY" AS HER GRANDCHILDREN CALLED HER.............SHE ALSO WOULD SIT FOR MY SON....WHO ADORED HER ALSO AND HE TOO REFFERED TO HER AS "NANNY".
SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT REPEAT OFFENDERS........I SAY DNA IS A GOOD START........