CURTIS GOODE, APPELLANT,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Fla. 1st DCA | 1973-02-27
No. Q-250
Spector, C.J., Rawls, J., Johnson, J.
279 So. 2d 352 Florida District Court of Appeal, First District (1973)

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Synopsis

Affirmed conviction where blood extraction without consent for alcohol analysis does not violate the Fourth, Fifth, or Fourteenth Amendments under State v. Mitchell precedent.


Holding

Blood extraction without expressed consent for alcohol analysis does not violate the Fourth, Fifth, or Fourteenth Amendments when the facts fall within State v. Mitchell.


Headnotes

[1] Blood extraction without expressed consent for alcohol analysis does not violate constitutional protections when conducted under circumstances established in State v. …

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Appellant Goode was convicted after blood samples were extracted without his expressed consent to determine alcoholic content.…

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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

Appellant vigorously contends by this appeal that extraction of blood samples without his expressed consent to an analysis to determine the alcoholic content contravenes the Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States of America. Appellant states that the opinion of the Florida Supreme Court in State v. Mitchell, 245 So.2d 618 (Fla.1971) “is contrary to the position he now takes in relation to the constitutional principles involved.” Nevertheless he argues that the Florida Supreme Court in its Mitchell opinion, misconstrued the principles of Schmerber v. California, 384 U.S. 757, 86 S.Ct. 1826, 16 L.Ed.2d 908 (1966) and urges us to adopt what he views as the corrected interpretation of law as set forth in Mitchell v. State, 227 So.2d 728 (2 Fla.App.1969). It is not the role of this court to re-evaluate a recent decision of the Supreme Court of Florida. As stated in this court’s opinion of Dawson v. State, 266 So.2d 116 (1 Fla.App.1972) :

“The facts surrounding the extraction of blood from Dawson fall squarely within those detailed in the Supreme Court’s decision in State v. Mitchell, 245 So.2d 618 (Fla.1971), and thus this contention is without merit.”

The facts surrounding extraction of blood from appellant, Curtis Goode, also fall squarely in those detailed in Supreme Court’s decision State v. Mitchell, supra, and thus the judgment of conviction must be affirmed.

SPECTOR, C. J., and RAWLS and JOHNSON, JJ., concur.


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