In Re the Welfare of J.W.K.

OPINION

BLATZ, Chief Justice.

This is a state’s pretrial appeal from a suppression order in a juvenile delinquency proceeding. The juvenile’s attorney successfully argued in the district court that the court should suppress both the DNA test results on a blood sample linking the suspect to the crime scene and a confession he gave after being confronted with the identification evidence. The court of appeals affirmed, concluding that the police needed additional consent or, failing that, a new sample obtained pursuant to a search warrant, before using the youth’s blood sample in connection with…