{"id":21406,"date":"2016-03-26T10:05:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T15:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21406"},"modified":"2016-03-26T10:05:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T15:05:14","slug":"ct-photographing-defs-body-would-not-be-a-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21406","title":{"rendered":"CT: Photographing def&#8217;s body would not be a search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn the present case, the police officers&#8217; attempts to photograph the defendant did not constitute either an unreasonable search or compelled self-incrimination. Because the defendant had no fourth or fifth amendment right to refuse to be photographed, his noncooperation was not an invocation of a constitutional right. Accordingly, the introduction into evidence of his refusal to cooperate did not violate his due process rights, and this claim fails.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jud.state.ct.us\/external\/supapp\/Cases\/AROap\/AP164\/164AP212.pdf\">State v. Morales<\/a>, 2016 Conn. App. LEXIS 127 (March 29, 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn the present case, the police officers&#8217; attempts to photograph the defendant did not constitute either an unreasonable search or compelled self-incrimination. Because the defendant had no fourth or fifth amendment right to refuse to be photographed, his noncooperation was &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21406\">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":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21407,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21406\/revisions\/21407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}