{"id":2335,"date":"2016-11-04T06:33:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T10:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=2335"},"modified":"2016-11-04T06:33:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T10:33:01","slug":"tennessee-supreme-court-no-warrant-blood-sample-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/11\/04\/tennessee-supreme-court-no-warrant-blood-sample-ok\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Supreme Court &#8211; No Warrant Blood Sample OK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tennessee Supreme Court, in a 4-1 decision, has ruled a blood sample from a driver in a fatal car accident can be included as trial evidence even though no warrant was obtained by police.<\/p>\n<p>The court said\u00a0that the officer, who drew the sample\u00a0in a 2011 accident investigation, was acting in good faith based on the\u00a0state&#8217;s interpretation of\u00a0a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. \u00a0The U.S. SC had ruled blood may\u00a0be drawn from drunken driving suspects without a warrant but\u00a0that U.S. SC ruling was eventually overturned.<\/p>\n<p>In the lone\u00a0dissent, a justice said that the decision erodes protection from\u00a0unreasonable searches and seizures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The Tennessee Supreme Court, in a 4-1 decision, has ruled a blood sample from a driver in a fatal car accident can be included as trial evidence even though no warrant was obtained by police. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2016\/11\/04\/tennessee-supreme-court-no-warrant-blood-sample-ok\/\" title=\"Tennessee Supreme Court &#8211; No Warrant Blood Sample OK\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1501,1502,1500,1504,1503],"class_list":{"0":"post-2335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-usa","9":"tag-blood-sample","10":"tag-drunken-driver","11":"tag-tennessee-supreme-court","12":"tag-unreasonable-search","13":"tag-warrant","14":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2335"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2335\/revisions\/2339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}