Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 8

Jul 25 2011 Post-Gazette PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE 26, 2011 WWW.POST-GAZETTE.COM A-8 A-8 Robin The stage for the U2 360 Tour is assembled at Heinz Field for show. For video, visit by 120 trucks, stands 90 feet tall with a center spire that reaches more than 150 feet, and resembles a sci-fi movie vision of alien spaceships. Lead singer Bono and company, who will not be playing around up there, will be captured on the 54-ton cylindrical video screen. The leg pieces have been kept to a mere 4 1 2 -feet wide to keep the sight lines open. one comment is, is this so Mr.

Evans said. they were first designing the 360, Willie Williams and Mark Fisher came up with the idea that, go small to try to make it easy real estate to fit Go big and actually make the stadium feel smaller, and change that ratio, and by doing so, the theory is improve the feeling of intimacy that everyone feels closer and actually covered by the stage presence. The stadium feel as big with this stage in One of the challenges for workers, who started Thursday, has been toiling in the 90-plus degree heat and humidity. One stagehand said working on the steel platform that covers the entire length of Heinz Field was on Thursday and Friday and joked that the reflection went right up their shorts. Fortunately, he added, much of the labor been that physical, as been mostly assisting the cranes and snapping things into place.

On the cooler Monday morning, they were dealing with rain, which much of concern in that every piece of equipment was carefully waterproofed. Mr. Evans said, local labor has been great, and the building has been Although there are still seats available, Jimmie Sacco, executive director of stadium management at Heinz Field, expects the show to break stadium records for a concert. hope to be close to 60,000 This is the third stadium concert of the season, with Kenny Chesney doing 55,000 and Taylor Swift, 53,000. Mr.

Evans mentioned that Heinz Field have the full 360 effect, because of the small number of seats on the open end that faces the city. In terms of part, will be things unique to he said. band decide on a set list till 6 look at currently going on. show will not just be a U2 360 show, but a Pittsburgh U2 360 He added: has always reacted very strongly to U2. I still go back to the Elevation Tour when we were here at the arena, and it was probably the most vibrant crowd of the whole Scott Mervis: gazette.com; 412-263-2576.

Bono, U2 to take grand stage tonight u2, FROM PAGE A-1 end result would be a very good said Sgt. Anthony Manetta of the state police. are a large number of unsolved crimes in Pennsylvania, and there are DNA associated with those crimes, and they are in a database, waiting to be Others saw the decision as a validation of a practice that is a invasion of as attorney John A. Knorr, who represented Mr. Mitchell, put it.

I think it suggests a further erosion of our constitutional rights, especially as they relate to a presumption of he said. suggests an assumption that they are second-class citizens simply because they are The 3rd Circuit hears appeals from federal district courts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. In Mr. case, the U.S. office in Pittsburgh appealed U.S.

District Judge David S. finding that taking DNA before convicting them was unconstitutional. The taking of DNA post- arrest was permitted by a 2006 amendment to the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000. After a Department of Justice review, federal law enforcement adopted that practice in early 2009. Court tests began that year and are just beginning to mature.

The 9th Circuit, which handles much of the west, last year approved the taking of DNA before a defendant is released pretrial. The 3rd Circuit takes another step. In an 8-6 ruling, with a 62-page opinion by Judge Julio M. Fuentes, the judges found that people who are arrested have diminished expectation of privacy in their Outweighing their privacy rights, they found, is the importance to law enforcement of correctly identifying people who are charged with crimes, determining their criminal history, potentially linking them to unsolved crimes and promptly ruling out involvement in cases in which the DNA does not match that found at the scene. DNA matching clears thousands of potential Judge Fuentes wrote.

Judge Marjorie O. Rendell wrote for six dissenting judges who found that the practice overreached. privacy interests of arrestees, while diminished in certain, very circumscribed situations, are not so weak as to permit the Government to intrude into their bodies and extract the highly sensitive information coded in their she wrote. Mr. Knorr said DNA collection turns on its head the concept of innocent-until-proven- guilty.

system respects the sanctity of the body of the individual, and we do not allow the government to intrude on that sanctity unless and until they show probable cause that going to find something amiss he said. now losing He said that if Mr. Mitchell agrees, he will petition the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a brief in the case, arguing against pre-conviction DNA sampling.

majority is saying, is really no different than said ACLU attorney Sara Rose. It is different, she said. samples contain probably the most private information that one Judge Rendell said it was not enough for government to promise to remove from its database the DNA profiles of people who are acquitted, especially in light of the current policy of preserving the cell sample itself. Court OKs DNA test for anyone accused of crime FROM PAGE A-1 Sgt. Manetta said that in Pennsylvania, if police believe a DNA would prove a crime, they seek a warrant.

If they get the warrant and the sample, they compare it to evidence in the case in which the person is charged but do not run it through the database of DNA from unsolved crimes. He said legislation is in the General Assembly that mirrors the federal policy and would mandate DNA sampling from all arrestees. would be a great tool, but without funding, it could really cause a he said. An already taxed lab would see 400 percent increase in potentially compromising its ability to process high- priority samples, he said. The nightmare scenario: lot of people who are law-abiding citizens may be walking down the sidewalk and find themselves caught up in a protest of some kind and find themselves said Jay Stanley, a spokesman for the Speech, Privacy and Technology Program.

could be falsely arrested, and your DNA then is taken by the government. And none of us really knows all of the secrets about us that our DNA may Rich Lord: zette.com or 412-263-1542. UPMCisaffiliatedwiththeUniversityofPittsburghSchoolofMedicine. UPMCisonceagainnamedto U.S.News&WorldReport hospitalsnationwide.We’rehonoredtoberecognizedinourongoing Pennsylvania.VisitUPMC.comtolearnmore. WHENYOUCHOOSEUPMC, OFTHEBESTINTHENATION.

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