{"id":32876,"date":"2018-05-01T04:18:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T09:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32876"},"modified":"2018-05-01T11:31:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:31:40","slug":"mn-seizure-of-blood-sample-by-sw-to-a-hosptial-doesnt-violate-doctor-patient-privielge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32876","title":{"rendered":"MN: Seizure of blood sample by SW to a hospital doesn&#8217;t violate doctor-patient privielge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe seizure of a patient&#8217;s blood sample pursuant to a search warrant addressed to a hospital does not violate the statutory physician-patient privilege because a blood sample collected by the hospital as part of medical treatment does not constitute \u2018information\u2019 under the plain language of\u201d the Minnesota doctor-patient privilege. Suppression order reversed. <a href=\"https:\/\/mn.gov\/law-library-stat\/archive\/ctappub\/2018\/OPa171463-043018.pdf\">State v. Atwood<\/a>, 2018 Minn. App. LEXIS 213 (Apr. 30, 2018).<\/p>\n<p>The police were justified in believing defendant\u2019s housemate had apparent authority to consent to police entry. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca8.uscourts.gov\/opndir\/18\/04\/171982P.pdf\">United States v. Cross<\/a>, 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 10961 (9th Cir. Apr. 30, 2018).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe seizure of a patient&#8217;s blood sample pursuant to a search warrant addressed to a hospital does not violate the statutory physician-patient privilege because a blood sample collected by the hospital as part of medical treatment does not constitute \u2018information\u2019 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32876\">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":[30,55,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apparent-authority-2","category-drug-testing","category-privileges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32876","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=32876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32885,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32876\/revisions\/32885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}