{"id":32359,"date":"2018-03-24T06:33:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32359"},"modified":"2018-03-24T07:40:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T12:40:03","slug":"fl4-implied-consent-doesnt-violate-4a-because-there-are-no-criminal-penalties-for-denying-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32359","title":{"rendered":"FL4: Implied consent doesn&#8217;t violate 4A because there are no criminal penalties for denying consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida implied consent statute does not violate the Fourth Amendment because it does not impose criminal penalties for non-compliance, and only administrative or evidentiary penalties. Defendant was unconscious at the time of the draw. <a href=\"https:\/\/edca.4dca.org\/DCADocs\/2017\/0232\/170232_1257_03212018_09374456_i.pdf\">McGraw v. State<\/a>, 2018 Fla. App. LEXIS 3943 (Fla. 4th DCA Mar. 22, 2018).<\/p>\n<p>The evidence supports the trial court\u2019s conclusion that defendant consented to a blood draw despite his bleeding from his head. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsc.state.tn.us\/sites\/default\/files\/kevin_fleming_opinion.pdf\">State v. Fleming<\/a>, 2018 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 218 (Mar. 22, 2018).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida implied consent statute does not violate the Fourth Amendment because it does not impose criminal penalties for non-compliance, and only administrative or evidentiary penalties. Defendant was unconscious at the time of the draw. McGraw v. State, 2018 Fla. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32359\">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":[24,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-drug-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32359","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=32359"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32361,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32359\/revisions\/32361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}