Who is Justice Leondra Kruger? For starters, she’s argued a dozen Supreme Court cases
WASHINGTON – It could have been an awkward meeting when Leondra Kruger, an associate justice on California’s Supreme Court, first sat down with the appellate judge she had just overturned in one of the highest profile decisions of her tenure.
At issue was a California law that allows police to collect DNA samples from anyone arrested for a felony. State Court of Appeal Justice J. Anthony Kline ruled the law violated the state constitution. Kruger disagreed and authored a 4-3 decision in 2018 reversing him.