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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Gill finds the circuit court in 2019 properly convicted defendant of two counts of first-degree murder after law enforcement used saliva from an envelope he gave them to match his DNA to DNA collected from semen at the scene of an unsolved double murder and sexual assault from 1976. Although defendant's DNA was collected as part of a "ruse" concocted by law enforcement involving a fake survey the circuit court referred to as a "complete fabrication" designed to collect his DNA after he became a suspect based on DNA analysis, defendant's challenge to the surreptitious collection of his DNA fails because he voluntarily and with consent handed the envelope containing his saliva to law enforcement. Defendant's motion to suppress was properly denied, and his judgment of conviction stands. Affirmed.