{"id":62890,"date":"2026-01-24T12:42:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62890"},"modified":"2026-01-24T12:42:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:42:16","slug":"sc-dna-taken-on-2007-arrest-didnt-need-to-be-suppressed-because-he-was-acquitted-back-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62890","title":{"rendered":"SC: DNA taken on 2007 arrest didn&#8217;t need to be suppressed because he was acquitted back then"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Defendant\u2019s DNA was taken when he was charged in 2007 and later acquitted. The DNA sample should not be suppressed because it was lawfully taken at the time. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sccourts.org\/media\/opinions\/HTMLFiles\/COA\/6132.pdf\">State v. Harrington<\/a>, 2026 S.C. App. LEXIS 7 (Jan. 21, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defendant\u2019s false LPN was reason for the stop. United States v. Ford, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 271810 (W.D. Mo. Dec. 23, 2025).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since defendant\u2019s statements weren\u2019t suppressed, the search that resulted thereafter isn\u2019t suppressed. United States v. Davis, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10922 (E.D. Mo. Jan. 21, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court declines to expand Stanley v. Georgia (1969) and protections of the home to a cell phone. United States v. Yener, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11379 (S.D. Fla. Jan. 21, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s DNA was taken when he was charged in 2007 and later acquitted. The DNA sample should not be suppressed because it was lawfully taken at the time. State v. Harrington, 2026 S.C. App. LEXIS 7 (Jan. 21, 2026). Defendant\u2019s &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62890\">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":[5,57,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-dna","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62890","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=62890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62891,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62890\/revisions\/62891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}