The high-profile case of slain Georgia hiker Meredith Emerson has fostered another piece of legislation. Today the House passed a measure that would allow police to compare DNA collected from some suspects to state or national databases. Legislators cited Emerson's case to support the bill. Lawmakers must now reconcile it with a similar one that earlier passed the Senate. The 24-year-old Emerson was kidnapped and killed while going on a New Year's Day hike in the north Georgia woods.
