{"id":6240,"date":"2012-05-15T20:56:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T08:51:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T08:51:52","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6240","title":{"rendered":"OH2: State failed to prove exigency to dispense with BAC level in DUI case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trial court\u2019s finding that state failed to show exigent circumstances to dispense with a warrant for blood is supported by the record. The officer was at the scene within a minute of the occurrence and had three hours to get the blood by statute. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sconet.state.oh.us\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/2\/2011\/2011-ohio-5696.pdf\">State v. Rawnsley<\/a>, 2011 Ohio 5696, 2011 Ohio App. LEXIS 4662 (2d Dist. November 4, 2011).*<\/p>\n<p>Defendant contended that the person granting consent was deaf and mentally retarded, but the trial court as finder of fact disagreed finding that she could hear without hearing aids and she was not retarded at all because she \u201cdemonstrated ample mental sophistication on the witness stand.  Therefore, this [c]ourt determined that Ms. Cape was mentally and physically capable of giving legal consent to search.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/OpPosting\/Superior\/out\/E01001_10.pdf\">Commonwealth v. Reese<\/a>, 2011 PA Super 235, 31 A.3d 708 (2011).*<\/p>\n<p>Because the officer had reasonable suspicion for the PBT it was reasonable and separate consent was not required. <a href=\"http:\/\/info.libraries.vermont.gov\/supct\/current\/op2010-401.html\">State v. Therrien<\/a>, 2011 VT 120, 38 A.3d 1129 (2011).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=6240\">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-6240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240","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=6240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}