{"id":26848,"date":"2017-04-19T08:34:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T13:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26848"},"modified":"2017-04-19T15:20:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T20:20:15","slug":"co-unconscious-and-dead-drivers-have-consented-to-a-blood-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26848","title":{"rendered":"CO: Unconscious [and dead] drivers have consented to a blood draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unconscious drivers have consented to a blood draw by statute, and it\u2019s constitutional. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.state.co.us\/userfiles\/file\/Court_Probation\/Supreme_Court\/Opinions\/2015\/15SA291.pdf\">People v. Hyde<\/a>, 2017 CO 24, 2017 Colo. LEXIS 282 (April 17, 2017); <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.state.co.us\/userfiles\/file\/Court_Probation\/Supreme_Court\/Opinions\/2015\/15SA330.pdf\">People v. Simpson<\/a>, 2017 CO 25, 2017 Colo. LEXIS 283 (April 17, 2017); <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.state.co.us\/userfiles\/file\/Court_Probation\/Supreme_Court\/Opinions\/2015\/15SC340.pdf\">Fitzgerald v. People<\/a>, 2017 CO 26, 2017 Colo. LEXIS 284 (April 17, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>Statements from named theft victims on the totality gave probable cause to believe that defendant had stolen high grade wire worth over $200k at his home. As to a later consent search claim, the fact that none of that ended up in evidence is moot. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=89ff8759-0efb-405a-b610-1a3b46b55b65&#038;MediaID=b06a66c3-dffb-44b2-a5b6-a131925c99b2&#038;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&#038;DT=Opinion\">Long v. State<\/a>, 2017 Tex. App. LEXIS 3350 (Tex. App. \u2013 Houston (14th Dist.) April 18, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unconscious drivers have consented to a blood draw by statute, and it\u2019s constitutional. People v. Hyde, 2017 CO 24, 2017 Colo. LEXIS 282 (April 17, 2017); People v. Simpson, 2017 CO 25, 2017 Colo. LEXIS 283 (April 17, 2017); Fitzgerald &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26848\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,55,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-drug-testing","category-informant-hearsay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26848"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26854,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848\/revisions\/26854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}