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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Police didn't violate any privacy laws when they posed as lawyers to get a man's DNA sample from an envelope he licked, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday, upholding the man's murder conviction.
John Athan was sentenced to at least 10 years in prison for the 2004 Seattle killing of a 13-year-old girl in 1982, when Athan was 14.
Police suspected him at the time but lacked the evidence to arrest him, and the case went unsolved for two decades. In 2003, police sent Athan a letter on the stationery of a fictitious law firm, asking if they could represent him in a class-action lawsuit.
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