State v. Ritter

¶ 1. Defendant Aaron Ritter appeals from an order of the Bennington District Court granting the State’s motion to compel him to submit to DNA sampling. Defendant contends, first, that the DNA sampling statute violates the Vermont Constitution, and second, that he was denied his right to counsel at the hearing on the State’s motion to compel DNA sampling. We affirm.

*566¶ 2. Defendant’s first appeal issue, that the DNA-sampling statute violates the Vermont Constitution, is disposed of by our recent decision in State v. Martin, 2008 VT 53, 184 Vt. 23, 955 A.2d 1144. In that opinion, we found no…