Fingerprinting Uncooperative Defendants

Published for NC Criminal Law on January 19, 2010.

From time to time, an officer or a magistrate asks how to respond when a defendant who is properly subject to fingerprinting under G.S. 15A-502 refuses to be fingerprinted. There are at least three good ways to address this situation: First, the magistrate can make fingerprinting a condition of release.  This is probably permitted under ... Read more

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