Practice question
A person arrested for extortion resists an unrelated compulsory urine drug test and asks for a lawyer. The test becomes the sole basis of a drug-use conviction. Officials defend it only as a mechanical act outside every constitutional concern. Which best reflects Dela Cruz?
- Every sample following any arrest is automatically lawful.
- The Court held extortion and drug use legally identical.
- Requesting a lawyer waived every objection.
- The Court rejected the mechanical-act-only defense and found the compelled test unconstitutional in the stated circumstances.
- Any positive result cures all defects in how it was obtained.
Legal references
- Dela Cruz v. People, G.R. No. 200748, July 23, 2014, main decision: https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/thebookshelf/showdocs/1/57255
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