WILBUR, Justice.
[¶ 1.] In this intermediate appeal, we examine a magistrate court's suppression of blood evidence seized without a warrant pursuant to South Dakota's implied consent statutes. We affirm the suppression of the blood evidence.
[¶ 2.] On the evening of August 4, 2013, Shauna Fierro was riding her motorcycle to her home in Butte County, South Dakota. At approximately 11:18 p.m., South Dakota Highway Patrol Troopers Jerry Kastein and Richard Olauson stopped Fierro after she committed a traffic violation.
[¶ 3.] After reviewing Fierro's South Dakota driver's license, Trooper Kastein administered a number of standard sobriety tests and concluded that Fierro did not pass some of them. Fierro was placed under arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI).
[¶ 4.] After making the arrest, Trooper Kastein, reading from a DUI advisement card, informed Fierro that she was required by law to give a sample of her blood. When Fierro specifically asked if she had to submit to a blood withdrawal, Trooper Kastein responded: "Yep, because state law says you have to."
[¶ 5.] Both troopers escorted Fierro to the Meade County jail. Trooper Olauson escorted Fierro inside the facility, where she was required to submit to a blood draw performed by a county employee. While being processed, Fierro informed the officers that she wanted to refuse the blood test and consult with an attorney. When the technician first attempted to draw blood from Fierro's arm, she pulled away to avoid it. Ultimately, a sample was obtained.
[¶ 6.] Trooper Kastein made no attempt to obtain consent from Fierro for
Trooper Kastein also testified that he had received training from his superior officers regarding the United States Supreme Court's decision in Missouri v. McNeely, ___ U.S. ___, 133 S.Ct. 1552, 185 L.Ed.2d 696 (2013).
[¶ 7.] On August 7, 2013, the State charged Fierro with alternative counts of driving under the influence in violation of SDCL 32-23-1(1) and (2). On October 11, 2013, Fierro filed a motion to suppress the blood test administration and results. An evidentiary hearing was held on October 25, 2013. The magistrate court heard testimony from Trooper Kastein, Trooper Olauson, and Fierro. The court also had the opportunity to view a video excerpt of the arrest. Ultimately, the court granted Fierro's motion to suppress.
[¶ 8.] On November 4, 2013, the State filed a motion to reconsider the suppression of the blood evidence and attempted to place new evidence into the record by filing a motion for judicial notice with various documents attached. A hearing on the motion to reconsider was held on November 22, 2013, and no additional evidence was presented. Again, the court denied the motion for reconsideration and reaffirmed its earlier ruling. The State's motion for judicial notice was never ruled upon by the court.
[¶ 9.] The court signed and entered its order granting Fierro's motion to suppress on November 27, 2013. In its findings of fact and conclusions of law entered on December 2, 2013, the court found that Fierro was never asked to consent to the seizure of her blood, that she did not voluntarily consent to the seizure of her blood, and that she refused to voluntarily submit to the seizure of her blood before the procedure was administered at the Meade County jail. The court also found that there were no exigent circumstances provided by the State.
[¶ 10.] The court held: "In light of the McNeely ruling, the [c]ourt finds that the State's interpretation of SDCL 32-23-10 in this particular case requiring a mandatory blood withdrawal without a warrant and without proving a valid exception to the warrant requirement is unconstitutional."
[¶ 11.] On January 13, 2014, this Court entered its order granting the State's petition to appeal from the court's intermediate order. In this appeal, we review:
[¶ 12.] "We review the [] court's grant or denial of a motion to suppress involving an alleged violation of a constitutionally protected right under the de novo standard of review." State v. Smith, 2014 S.D. 50, ¶ 14, 851 N.W.2d 719, 723. "The [] court's findings of fact are reviewed under the clearly erroneous standard, but we give no deference to the [ ] court's conclusions of law." Id. (quoting State v. Mohr, 2013 S.D. 94, ¶ 12, 841 N.W.2d 440, 444). And although "[f]actual findings of the lower court are reviewed under the clearly erroneous standard, ... once those facts have been determined, `the application of a legal standard to those facts is a question of law reviewed de novo.'" State v. Heney, 2013 S.D. 77, ¶ 8, 839 N.W.2d 558, 561-62 (quoting State v. Hess, 2004 S.D. 60, ¶ 9, 680 N.W.2d 314, 319).
[¶ 13.] As to the first issue, the State contends that the court erred as a matter of law in concluding that the United States Supreme Court's holding in McNeely controlled, and that as such, the blood draw under the State's implied consent statute — SDCL 32-23-10
[¶ 14.] The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees citizens the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures:
Likewise, Article VI, § 11 of our state constitution guarantees our citizens the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures:
[¶ 15.] "The Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures requires generally the issuance of a warrant by a neutral judicial officer based on probable cause prior to the execution of a search or seizure of a person." Smith, 2014 S.D. 50, ¶ 15, 851 N.W.2d at 724 (quoting Mohr, 2013 S.D. 94, ¶ 13, 841 N.W.2d at 444). "Warrantless searches are per se unreasonable, apart from a few, [well-delineated] exceptions[,]" id. ¶ 15 (citation omitted), and it is the State's burden to prove that the search at issue falls within a well-delineated exception to the warrant requirement. Hess, 2004 S.D. 60, ¶ 23, 680 N.W.2d at 324.
[¶ 16.] This principle applies to the type of search that is the subject of the present appeal, which involves a compelled, warrantless blood draw for alcohol content to be analyzed and used as evidence in a criminal investigation and prosecution. See Skinner v. Ry. Labor Executives' Ass'n, 489 U.S. 602, 616, 109 S.Ct. 1402, 1412, 103 L.Ed.2d 639 (1989) (stating that the United States Supreme Court has "long recognized that a `compelled intrusion into the body for blood to be analyzed for alcohol content' must be deemed a Fourth Amendment search") (citation omitted). This type of invasion concerns an individual's "most personal and deep-rooted expectations of privacy[.]" Winston v. Lee, 470 U.S. 753, 760, 105 S.Ct. 1611, 1616, 84 L.Ed.2d 662 (1985). "Reasonableness of a search depends on balancing the public's interest in preventing crime with the individual's right to be free from arbitrary and unwarranted governmental intrusions into personal privacy." State v. Hirning, 1999 S.D. 53, ¶ 11, 592 N.W.2d 600, 603.
[¶ 17.] The exigent circumstances exception is one of the well-delineated exceptions to the warrant requirement. State v. Zahn, 2012 S.D. 19, ¶ 30, 812 N.W.2d 490, 499. The United States Supreme Court's decision in Schmerber v. California, 384 U.S. 757, 86 S.Ct. 1826, 16 L.Ed.2d 908 (1966) was the leading decision on blood draws in cases involving DUI investigations. The holding in Schmerber approved, under the particular facts of that case,
[¶ 18.] The State argues that the warrantless blood draw in this case was constitutionally permissible under the consent exception to the warrant requirement. See Zahn, 2012 S.D. 19, ¶ 30, 812 N.W.2d at 499 (providing the "well-delineated exceptions" to the warrant requirement, including the consent exception). "Even when police officers have neither probable cause nor a warrant," a search is permissible under the Fourth Amendment if the officers "obtain voluntary consent from someone possessing adequate authority over the area." State v. Akuba, 2004 S.D. 94, ¶ 12, 686 N.W.2d 406, 412 (quoting United States v. Chaidez, 906 F.2d 377, 380 (8th Cir.1990)). See Schneckloth v. Bustamonte, 412 U.S. 218, 93 S.Ct. 2041, 36 L.Ed.2d 854 (1973). "It has been said that consent to conduct a search satisfies the Fourth Amendment, thereby removing the need for a warrant or even probable cause." Akuba, 2004 S.D. 94, ¶ 12, 686 N.W.2d at 412 (quoting State v. Sheehy, 2001 S.D. 130, ¶ 11, 636 N.W.2d 451, 453).
[¶ 19.] "For consent to a search to be valid, the totality of the circumstances must indicate that it was voluntarily given[,]" State v. Almond, 511 N.W.2d 572, 573 (S.D.1994), and was not "the product of duress or coercion, express or implied[.]" Schneckloth, 412 U.S. at 227, 93 S.Ct. at 2048. The voluntariness of a search based on consent is a factual question "to be determined from the totality of all the circumstances." Id. "Whether the accused knew that he possessed a right to refuse consent also is relevant to determining the voluntariness of the consent, although the State need not prove that defendant knew of the right to refuse consent to show that the consent was voluntary." State v. Castleberry, 2004 S.D. 95, ¶ 9, 686 N.W.2d 384, 387 (citing Schneckloth, 412 U.S. at 248-49, 93 S.Ct. at 2059). Once given, consent to search may be withdrawn at any time prior to the completion of the search. See State v. Zachodni, 466 N.W.2d 624, 629 (S.D.1991) abrogated on other grounds by Akuba, 2004 S.D. 94, ¶ 13, 686 N.W.2d at 412-13 (providing that the consensual search of the defendant's pickup truck did not include a suitcase, which the defendant verbalized his reluctance to allow, amounting to a withdrawal of consent as to all). See also United States v. Sanders, 424 F.3d 768, 774 (8th Cir. 2005) (stating that "[o]nce given, consent to search may be withdrawn"); United States v. Lattimore, 87 F.3d 647, 651 (4th Cir.1996); Wayne R. LaFave, 4 Search & Seizure § 8.2(f) (5th ed.2013) (stating "[a] consent to search is not irrevocable, and thus if a person effectively revokes his prior consent prior to the time the search is completed, then the police may not thereafter search in reliance upon the earlier consent").
[¶ 20.] The State's argument that Fierro consented to the compelled, warrantless blood draw without any right to refuse pursuant to SDCL 32-23-10 does not fit within the consent exception to the warrant requirement. The court's findings
[¶ 21.] Additionally, the State contends that the warrantless seizure of Fierro's blood is permissible under the "special needs" exception to the warrant requirement. In delineating the use of this exception, the United States Supreme Court has explained that it only applies "when special needs beyond the normal need for law enforcement, make the warrant and probable-cause requirement impracticable." Skinner, 489 U.S. at 619, 109 S.Ct. at 1414 (citation omitted) (emphasis added). See, e.g., Ferguson v. City of Charleston, 532 U.S. 67, 82-83, 121 S.Ct. 1281, 1291-92, 149 L.Ed.2d 205 (2001) (invalidating nonconsensual testing of pregnant women for illicit drug use because "the immediate objective of the searches was to generate evidence for law enforcement purposes").
[¶ 22.] We disagree with the State's argument that the seizure of Fierro's blood falls under this exception to the warrant requirement. The primary purpose of the warrantless seizure of Fierro's blood was evidentiary and prosecutorial. Peterson v. State, 261 N.W.2d 405, 408 (S.D.1977) (stating that in addition to "a fair, efficient and accurate system of detection and prevention of drunken driving ... [t]he immediate purpose of ... the implied consent law is to obtain the best evidence of blood and alcohol content at the time of the arrest of a person reasonably believed to be driving while intoxicated") (citation omitted). The State also concedes this point in its brief: "The immediate purpose of the implied consent statute is to obtain the best evidence of blood alcohol content at the time a person reasonably believed to be driving while intoxicated is arrested."
[¶ 23.] The State contends that SDCL 32-23-10 permits compelled, warrantless blood draws in every case. SDCL 32-23-10, by itself, does not provide an exception to the search warrant requirement in South Dakota and any argument to the contrary cannot be reconciled with the United States Supreme Court and this Court's Fourth Amendment warrant requirement jurisprudence. We have never held that SDCL 32-23-10, by itself, constitutes one of the "few specifically established and well-delineated exceptions" to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement and decline to do so today. See Mincey v. Arizona, 437 U.S. 385, 390, 98 S.Ct. 2408, 2412, 57 L.Ed.2d 290 (1978) (quoting Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347, 357, 88 S.Ct. 507, 514, 19 L.Ed.2d 576 (1967)). Furthermore, our precedent is clear that the Legislature cannot enact a statute that would preempt a citizen's constitutional right, such as a citizen's Fourth Amendment right. See Poppen v. Walker, 520 N.W.2d 238, 242 (S.D.1994), superseded by constitutional amendment, November 8, 1994, amendment to S.D. Const. art. III, § 25, as recognized in Brendtro v. Nelson, 2006 S.D. 71, 720 N.W.2d 670 (providing that "[t]he legislature cannot define the scope of a constitutional provision by subsequent legislation"); Rupert v. City of Rapid City, 2013 S.D. 13, ¶ 43 n. 10, 827 N.W.2d 55, 71 n. 10 (stating "[a]s the Constitution is the `mother law,' any statutory framework must conform to it and not vice versa") (quoting Poppen, 520 N.W.2d at 242). Without more, SDCL 32-23-10 is not an exception to the warrant requirement.
[¶ 24.] The State has failed to provide this Court with an exception to the warrant requirement that permits the compelled, warrantless blood draw that occurred in this case. Accordingly, this type of blood draw violates the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment of the federal constitution and Article VI, § 11 of our state constitution.
[¶ 25.] We now examine whether suppression is the appropriate remedy for
[¶ 26.] The exclusion or suppression of evidence is "`not a personal constitutional right,' nor is it designed to `redress the injury' occasioned by an unconstitutional search." Davis, ___ U.S. at ___, 131 S.Ct. at 2426 (quoting Stone v. Powell, 428 U.S. 465, 486, 96 S.Ct. 3037, 49 L.Ed.2d 1067 (1976)). "The rule's sole purpose ... is to deter future Fourth Amendment violations." Id. "Where suppression fails to yield appreciable deterrence, exclusion is clearly ... unwarranted." Id. at ___, 131 S.Ct. at 2426-27 (citation omitted). "For exclusion to be appropriate, the deterrence benefits of suppression must outweigh its heavy costs." Id. at ___, 131 S.Ct. at 2427. "Because the goal of deterrence will not always be advanced by excluding relevant, though illegally seized, evidence, the Supreme Court has identified several exceptions to the exclusionary rule." Sorensen, 2004 S.D. 108, ¶ 8, 688 N.W.2d at 197 (citation omitted).
[¶ 27.] The United States Supreme Court and this Court have applied the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule in a variety of different contexts.
[¶ 28.] Following the United States Supreme Court's decision in Schmerber, this Court adopted the following:
State v. Hartman, 256 N.W.2d 131, 134 (S.D.1977) (citing Schmerber, 384 U.S. 757, 86 S.Ct. 1826, 16 L.Ed.2d 908) (emphasis added). This rule was applied by this Court and guided the practice of law enforcement officers for several decades. See, e.g., State v. Mattson, 2005 S.D. 71, ¶ 44, 698 N.W.2d 538, 552; State v. Hanson, 1999 S.D. 9, ¶ 28, 588 N.W.2d 885, 891; State v. Tucker, 533 N.W.2d 152, 154 (S.D.1995); State v. Lanier, 452 N.W.2d 144, 145 (S.D.1990); State v. Parker, 444 N.W.2d 42, 44 (S.D.1989). These authorities held that the rapid dissipation of alcohol in the body was a per se exigent circumstance that provided law enforcement the authority to conduct warrantless blood draws. Recently, however, the Supreme Court's decision in McNeely expressly rejected a per se rule that the natural dissipation of alcohol in the blood alone is an exigent circumstance obviating the need for a warrant prior to a blood draw. See id., ___ U.S. at ___, 133 S.Ct. at 1556. Instead, the Supreme Court relied on Schmerber's case-by-case analysis in reviewing exigent circumstances based on the totality of the circumstances and held that "the natural dissipation of alcohol in the bloodstream does not constitute an exigency in every case sufficient to justify conducting a blood test without a warrant." Id. at ___, 133 S.Ct. at 1568. The Supreme Court's holding in McNeely was a shift from this Court's previous interpretation of Schmerber. See Siers v. Weber, 2014 S.D. 51, ¶ 15, 851 N.W.2d 731 (discussing South Dakota's pre-McNeely interpretation and application of Schmerber).
[¶ 29.] Here, Trooper Kastein arrested and drew Fierro's blood on August 4, 2013 — approximately four months after the United States Supreme Court released its decision in McNeely. Trooper Kastein testified that he was aware of the McNeely decision and had received new training as to its effect. When, as here, law enforcement is aware of new case precedent and has received training as to the effect of the new precedent, subsequent activity conducted in accordance with prior, contrary, precedent cannot be said to be "objectively reasonable[.]" Davis, ___ U.S. at ___, 131 S.Ct. at 2429. Therefore, in order to promote, meaningful deterrence of this
[¶ 30.] Based on the foregoing, we affirm the court's grant of the suppression motion.
[¶ 31.] GILBERTSON, Chief Justice, and KONENKAMP, ZINTER and SEVERSON, Justices, concur.
Id. at 772, 86 S.Ct. at 1836.
Frost v. R.R. Comm'n of State of Cal., 271 U.S. 583, 593-94, 46 S.Ct. 605, 607, 70 L.Ed. 1101 (1926).
Id.
The State's analysis of the search in this case under the McGann factors is unpersuasive. McGann and cases cited by McGann in support of its factor-analysis are administrative searches conducted for reasons other than normal law enforcement purposes. Here, as the State concedes, the search and seizure of Fierro's blood under SDCL 32-23-10 was conducted to obtain the "best evidence of blood alcohol content" for purposes of criminal prosecution. Therefore, the factor-analysis in McGann is not applicable to the circumstances in this appeal.
Krull, 480 U.S. at 349-50, 107 S.Ct. at 1167 (citation omitted). In sum, "[a] statute cannot support objectively reasonable reliance if, in passing the statute, the legislature wholly abandoned its responsibility to enact constitutional laws." Id. at 355, 107 S.Ct. at 1170. "Nor can a law enforcement officer be said to have acted in good-faith reliance upon a statute if its provisions are such that a reasonable officer should have known that the statute was unconstitutional." Id.