Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, Amicus Curiae
Sandra K. Levick, Counsel of Record
The Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia represents indigent defendants in the Nation’s capital, including Washington, D.C., residents who are facing charges in neighboring Maryland. Sandra K. Levick is a staff attorney to the District of Columbia Public Defender. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Respondent as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on February 1, 2013. Throughout their briefs, petitioners and amici in support of reversing the Maryland Court of Appeals argue that this case can be resolved by reference to a simple analogy. By their lights, Maryland’s program of taking DNA…