{"id":27183,"date":"2017-05-16T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27183"},"modified":"2017-05-24T08:04:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T13:04:39","slug":"tn-warrantless-blood-draw-was-exigent-seeking-a-warrant-would-delay-it-beyond-3-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27183","title":{"rendered":"TN: Warrantless blood draw was exigent; seeking a warrant would delay it beyond 3 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The warrantless draw of defendant&#8217;s blood was justified on the basis of exigent circumstances. The officer acted reasonably by authorizing a warrantless blood draw so as to prevent a delay of over three hours before defendant&#8217;s blood could be preserved as evidence of DUI. The officer performed his work as efficiently as he could under the circumstances, and seeking a search warrant for defendant&#8217;s blood would have taken considerable additional time, thereby significantly undermining the efficacy of the criminal investigation. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsc.state.tn.us\/sites\/default\/files\/scarlet_martin.pdf\">State v. Martin<\/a>, 2017 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 365 (May 11, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>Subpoenas to two AUSA\u2019s to testify as adverse character witnesses to a government witness on a motion to suppress are quashed. There are other sources of the information. United States v. Flores, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72926 (C.D. Cal. May 8, 2017),* reconsideration denied, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 77628 (C.D. Cal. May 22, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The warrantless draw of defendant&#8217;s blood was justified on the basis of exigent circumstances. The officer acted reasonably by authorizing a warrantless blood draw so as to prevent a delay of over three hours before defendant&#8217;s blood could be preserved &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27183\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27183","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=27183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27284,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27183\/revisions\/27284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}