A nontestimonial identification order authorized by this Article may be issued by any judge upon request of a prosecutor. As used in this Article, "nontestimonial identification" means identification by fingerprints, palm prints, footprints, measurements, blood specimens, urine specimens, saliva samples, hair samples, or other reasonable physical examination, handwriting exemplars, voice samples, photographs, and lineups or similar identification procedures requiring the presence of a suspect.
N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-271
Authority to issue order
Applied in 12 court decisions — leading case State v. Evans (1983)
Most recently applied in 786 F. Supp. 2d 887 - McFadyen v. Duke University (March 2011)
1973, c. 1286, s. 1; 1975, c. 166, s. 27.
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: North Carolina General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain North Carolina statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.