A divided state Supreme Court agonized over the erosion of personal privacy Tuesday when it upheld multiple kidnapping convictions against a former school administrator who was tied to the decades-old crimes by DNA evidence the police found on a belt he discarded with his garbage.

The 4-2 majority affirmed eight kidnapping convictions against former Hartford charter school executive Michael Sharpe, saying there is no privacy right that protected Sharpe from the warrantless collection and analysis of genetic material that police collected from discarded property.

In a vigorous dissent that cited unlawerly texts such as as “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” the minority warned the court it was moving down a path toward diminishing personal privacy by wrongly yielding to a

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