State v. Satterfield

HUSKINS, Justice.

Defendant was served with a nontestimonial identification order on 30 March 1979 directing him to submit to procedures for collection of saliva, blood and pubic hair samples at the Iredell Memorial Hospital Emergency Room. The procedures were conducted on 2 April 1978, and the samples were personally delivered by an officer of the Statesville Police Department to David Hedgecock, a forensic serologist employed by the SBI, for analysis and comparison.

At trial, defendant sought to suppress the results of Mr. Hedgecock’s analysis by interposing a general objection to…