California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Carrington v. Superior Court, 107 Cal.Rptr. 546, 31 Cal.App.3d 635 (Cal. App. 1973):
In United States v. Dionisio, --- U.S. ---, 93 S.Ct. 764, 769, 35 L.Ed.2d 67, 76, the court said: 'As the court made clear in Schmerber, supra, the obtaining of physical evidence from a person involves a potential Fourth Amendment violation at two different levels--the 'seizure' of the 'person' necessary to bring him into contact with government agents (citation) and the subsequent search for and seizure of the evidence. In Schmerber, we found the initial seizure of the accused justified as a lawful arrest, and the subsequent seizure of the blood sample from his body reasonable in light of the exigent circumstances.'
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