California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Buza, 180 Cal.Rptr.3d 753, 231 Cal.App.4th 1446 (Cal. App. 2014):
probable causeis that the sooner the testing is accomplished, the lower the risk of a dangerous individual remaining unidentified. The weight of this time-limited interest is extremely low. At the same time, the privacy interest of the arrestee is considerably higher. Arrestees, while suspected of having committed a crime, still enjoy the presumption of innocence and therefore occupy a different place in constitutional analysis than convicted offenders, who by virtue of their convictions suffer a loss of certain constitutional rights. (See Friedman v. Boucher (9th 2009) 580 F.3d 847, 856858 ; Medina, supra, 102 A.3d at p. 68081, 2014 WL 3388014, at p. *17.) An arrestee whose arrest has not even been subjected to a judicial determination of probable cause falls closest on the spectrum of privacy rights to an ordinary citizen.26
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