{"id":27415,"date":"2017-06-02T06:50:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T11:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27415"},"modified":"2017-06-02T08:08:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T13:08:19","slug":"pa-once-sw-issues-for-clothes-and-dna-removed-no-further-warrant-needed-for-dna-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27415","title":{"rendered":"PA: Once SW issues for clothes and DNA removed, no further warrant needed for DNA testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DNA lawfully seized from defendant\u2019s clothes did not require a separate warrant to test it. Defendant doesn\u2019t have a reasonable expectation of privacy in his victim\u2019s DNA on him. Once DNA is lawfully taken, there is no longer any reasonable expectation of privacy in them from further testing. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-A02009-17o.pdf?cb=2\">Commonwealth v. Smith<\/a>, 2017 PA Super 170, 2017 Pa. Super. LEXIS 391 (May 31, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn sum, because Hynes refused to submit to the chemical testing requested by the arresting officer pursuant to OCGA \u00a7 40-5-55, he was not entitled to an independent test, and the trial court properly denied his motion to suppress the results of the blood test performed pursuant to a search warrant.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/efast.gaappeals.us\/download?filingId=9c823030-6f43-4a3c-8f82-5bf8a5cc5893\">Hynes v. State<\/a>, 2017 Ga. App. LEXIS 229 (May 31, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA lawfully seized from defendant\u2019s clothes did not require a separate warrant to test it. Defendant doesn\u2019t have a reasonable expectation of privacy in his victim\u2019s DNA on him. Once DNA is lawfully taken, there is no longer any reasonable &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=27415\">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":[57,55,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dna","category-drug-testing","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27415","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=27415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27416,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27415\/revisions\/27416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}