{"id":1936,"date":"2008-06-22T06:50:59","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T03:28:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T04:09:18","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1936","title":{"rendered":"KS: Failure to specify DNA profile in John Doe arrest warrant was error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Failure to specifically identify a known DNA profile in a John Doe arrest warrant was sufficient to toll the statute of limitations in rape cases. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kscourts.org\/Cases-and-Opinions\/opinions\/supct\/2008\/20080328\/95575.htm\">State v. Belt<\/a>, 285 Kan. 949, 179 P.3d 443 (2008):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Neither the United States Supreme Court nor this court has yet had occasion to address whether a description of DNA characteristics can fulfill a warrant particularity requirement. The parties thus direct us to cases from two of our sister jurisdictions. See <em>People v. Robinson<\/em>, 156 Cal. App. 4th 508, 67 Cal.Rptr. 3d 392 (2007), rev. granted 2008 Cal. LEXIS 1420, February 13, 2008, S158528; <em>State v. Davis<\/em>, 2005 WI App 98, 281 Wis. 2d 118, 698 N.W.2d 823 (2005); <em>State v. Dabney<\/em>, 2003 WI App 108, 264 Wis. 2d 843, 663 N.W.2d 366 (2003), rev. denied 266 Wis. 2d 63, 2003 WI 140, 671 N.W.2d 850 (2003).<\/p>\n<p>These cases from California and Wisconsin support the proposition that a warrant identifying the person to be arrested for a sexual offense by description of the person&#8217;s unique DNA profile, or incorporating by reference an affidavit containing such a unique profile, can satisfy constitutional and statutory particularity requirements.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=1936\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}