TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Jul 8, 2016
A lawyer in Hughes County, S.D. is requesting a judge to remove test results obtained from his client through a forced urine sample, which was taken by police. The attorney for Dirk Landon Sparks, Jeremy Lund, claims that his client’s Fourth Amendment rights were violated and is shining a light on the practice of forced samples by police. In Lund’s May 16 motion, he argues that while a judge signed a warrant for a blood or urine sample, the warrant didn’t authorize Sparks to be strapped down and have a sample forcibly taken from him. The ABA Journal has more.