{"id":2874,"date":"2009-03-31T18:36:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T09:55:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T09:55:35","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2874","title":{"rendered":"WY: Warrant check is not a seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A comment by the prosecutor about defendant&#8217;s refusing to give a DNA sample would violate the Fourth Amendment. <a href=\"http:\/\/courts.state.wy.us\/Opinions\/2009WY2.pdf\">Smith v. State<\/a>, 2009 WY 2, 199 P.3d 1052 n.1 (2009) (recognizing rule, but finding it waived):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The State candidly admits that eliciting testimony and commenting about a suspect&#8217;s refusal to give a sample for DNA testing may violate a defendant&#8217;s Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. See, e.g., United States v. Dozal, 173 F.3d 787, 794 (10th Cir. 1999) (ruling that asking the jury to draw adverse inferences from a refusal to consent to a search may be impermissible under the Fourth Amendment); Deno v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, 177 S.W.3d 753, 762 (Ky. 2005) (stating that a defendant&#8217;s pre-arrest refusal to provide a sample for DNA testing could not be used as evidence of his guilt under the Fourth Amendment). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A warrant check during a limited stop is not a seizure. <a href=\"http:\/\/courts.state.wy.us\/Opinions\/2009WY1.pdf\">Wilson v. State<\/a>, 2009 WY 1, 199 P.3d 517 (2009).<\/p>\n<p>Police entry into defendant&#8217;s apartment was unjustified once the officer determined that defendant was not involved in a robbery. Also, there were no sounds from inside that would justify an entry to determine who they were if they were the robbers. State v. Culpepper, 295 Ga. App. 525, 672 S.E.2d 494 (2009).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=2874\">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-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874","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=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}