{"id":3511,"date":"2009-11-07T12:45:55","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T23:05:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T09:08:55","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3511","title":{"rendered":"CA: DNA description in a warrant pending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The California Supreme Court just heard argument on whether a DNA profile is particular enough for an arrest warrant. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.com\/jsp\/article.jsp?id=1202435187887&amp;Calif_Justices_Seem_OK_With_DNABased_Warrant\">Calif. Justices Seem OK With DNA-Based Warrant<\/a> by Mike McKee of The Recorder on Law.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At issue in People v. Robinson, S158528, is whether an unknown suspect&#8217;s DNA profile &#8212; as opposed to a physical description&#8211;can satisfy the so-called particularity requirement for issuing a &#8220;John Doe&#8221; warrant, and whether such warrants toll the statute of limitations for bringing criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>A third issue is whether the unlawful collection of a blood sample violates the Fourth Amendment&#8217;s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3511\">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-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511","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=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}