{"id":4437,"date":"2010-12-29T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T08:38:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T08:38:09","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4437","title":{"rendered":"ND: Taking DNA sample by search warrant was not a &#8220;critical stage&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A juvenile accused of a forced sex offense did not have a right to have an attorney or his parents present for execution of a search warrant for his DNA because it was not a &#8220;critical stage&#8221; of the proceedings. Also, the affidavit for the search warrant did not omit any material facts to the finding of probable cause. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndcourts.gov\/_court\/opinions\/20090339.htm\">State v. Poitra<\/a>, 2010 ND 137, 785 N.W.2d 225 (N.D. 2010):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[*P25]  In general, a criminal defendant does not have a constitutional right to an attorney before submitting DNA during the execution of a search warrant. See, e.g., <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=464983853144859172&amp;q=410+N.E.2d+1297&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=1002\">McClain v. State<\/a>, 410 N.E.2d 1297, 1303 (Ind. 1980) (no right to counsel during execution of a search warrant for internal body secretions, swab emission test does not involve attempts to get testimony or assertions and is not a critical stage of the proceedings); <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=11889848167051193633&amp;q=630+A.2d+767&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=1002\">State v. Delisle<\/a>, 630 A.2d 767 (N.H. 1993) (a defendant does not have a right to an attorney prior to giving blood samples pursuant to a warrant); <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=2156070805020418328&amp;q=220+S.W.3d+180&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=1002\">Hale v. State<\/a>, 220 S.W.3d 180 (Tex. App. 2007) (no right to counsel when taking a saliva sample for DNA testing because it was not a critical stage of the proceedings). Poitra fails to cite any authority granting juveniles greater protections in executing a search warrant than an adult criminal defendant receives.<\/p>\n<p>[*P26]  Unlike cases where a juvenile must consent or refuse to take a chemical test, a juvenile does not have a choice whether to provide evidence when a search warrant has been issued. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4437\">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-4437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437","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=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}