{"id":46397,"date":"2020-12-10T09:45:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46397"},"modified":"2020-12-10T09:45:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T14:45:25","slug":"sd-impending-surgery-exigency-for-warrantless-blood-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46397","title":{"rendered":"SD: Impending surgery exigency for warrantless blood draw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant\u2019s impending surgery was an exigent circumstance for a warrantless blood draw. \u201cWe have held that imminent medical care that threatens to destroy BAC evidence through blood transfusions, intravenous fluids, or natural dissipation over time may create exigent circumstances. \u2026 Therefore, Vortherms&#8217;s argument primarily hinges on whether law enforcement&#8217;s failure to obtain a warrant in the thirty-five minutes between Bumann&#8217;s arrival at the hotel and his arrival at the hospital was unreasonable.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/ujs.sd.gov\/uploads\/sc\/opinions\/290708d85842.pdf\">State v. Vortherms<\/a>, 2020 SD 67, 2020 S.D. LEXIS 142 (Dec. 2, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether defense counsel was ineffective for not making a Fourth Amendment challenge to taking gunshot residue tests from defendant\u2019s hands at the time of his arrest can\u2019t be decided on the direct appeal record. Do it in a PCR proceeding. <a href=\"https:\/\/courts.ms.gov\/Images\/Opinions\/CO150454.pdf\">Mosley v. State<\/a>, 2020 Miss. App. LEXIS 678 (Dec. 8, 2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s impending surgery was an exigent circumstance for a warrantless blood draw. \u201cWe have held that imminent medical care that threatens to destroy BAC evidence through blood transfusions, intravenous fluids, or natural dissipation over time may create exigent circumstances. \u2026 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46397\">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":[55,3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-testing","category-emergency-exigency","category-search-incident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46397","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=46397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46399,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46397\/revisions\/46399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}