{"id":16633,"date":"2015-04-04T12:15:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T17:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16633"},"modified":"2015-04-04T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T17:15:13","slug":"tx1-heien-reasonable-mistake-of-law-rejected-because-texas-doesnt-follow-gfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16633","title":{"rendered":"TX1: Heien \u2018reasonable mistake of law\u2019 rejected because Texas doesn&#8217;t follow GFE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was followed to a stop with a flat tire. The officer noticed signs of intoxication, and defendant ended up arrested for DWI. The warrantless blood draw couldn\u2019t be based on two prior DWIs as exigency. Moreover, \u201cAccordingly, we decline to apply the \u2018reasonable mistake of law\u2019 reasoning from Heien to create a new exception inconsistent with the text of article 38.23. Because the warrantless, nonconsensual blood draw here violated Tercero&#8217;s Fourth Amendment rights, we conclude that the trial court did not err in suppressing the blood evidence.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=9b6c65af-b04b-4645-b294-99ac13a3151d&#038;MediaID=6e6b50d8-cb96-4544-bffa-7813c69c934c&#038;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&#038;DT=Opinion\">State v. Tercero<\/a>, 2015 Tex. App. LEXIS 3284 (Tex.App. \u2013 Houston (1st Dist.) April 2, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>In a swerving stop, defendant consented to the search of his car producing cocaine. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca8.uscourts.gov\/opndir\/15\/04\/142801U.pdf\">United States v. Davis<\/a>, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 5376 (8th Cir. April 3, 2015).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant was followed to a stop with a flat tire. The officer noticed signs of intoxication, and defendant ended up arrested for DWI. The warrantless blood draw couldn\u2019t be based on two prior DWIs as exigency. Moreover, \u201cAccordingly, we decline &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=16633\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,55,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-drug-testing","category-good-faith-exception"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16634,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16633\/revisions\/16634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}