Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as limiting any law enforcement or prosecuting agency from obtaining nontestimonial evidence to the extent permitted by law on the effective date of this section.
Cal. Penal Code § 1054.4
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Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 43 Cal. 4th 1096 - DE JESUS VERDIN v. Superior Court of Riverside County (2008)
Most recently applied in S.V. v. Superior Court of Orange Cnty. (July 2017)
Added June 5, 1990, by initiative Proposition 115.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.