Daily Archives: December 1, 2021

TX5: SW for firearms in a vehicle permitted search and seizure of GSR although not specified

Officers had a search warrant for defendant’s car for firearms, but they also searched for gunshot residue which was not particularly described. Still, searching for GSR is reasonable on execution of the warrant. Brown v. State, 2021 Tex. App. LEXIS … Continue reading

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Yale L.J.: “The Ostensible (and, at Times, Actual) Virtue of Deference” to police expertise

Anthony O’Rourke, The Ostensible (and, at Times, Actual) Virtue of Deference, Yale L. Journal (Nov. 30, 2021), at note 36:

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