State v. Dearmas

OPINION

FLANDERS, Justice.

We review here a Superior Court order granting the state’s motion to seize a blood sample from the petitioner, Jose Dearmas, as well as a search warrant issued by that same court to the same effect. The petitioner is a defendant in a pending criminal case charging him with two counts of first-degree child molestation. The state requested and obtained the blood-seizure order and search warrant because it sought to conduct tests on the petitioner’s blood to ascertain whether the petitioner’s DNA matched the DNA obtained from body-fluid evidence that the perpetrator left…