{"id":23293,"date":"2016-08-09T09:40:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T14:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23293"},"modified":"2016-08-09T09:40:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T14:40:54","slug":"tx14-text-messages-between-def-and-murder-victim-and-possession-of-victims-phone-was-pc-for-cell-phone-sw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=23293","title":{"rendered":"TX14: Text messages between def and murder victim and possession of victim’s phone was PC for cell phone SW"},"content":{"rendered":"

Text messages between a murder victim and the defendant just before the murder supported probable cause to search defendant\u2019s cell phone. Defendant was found with the victim\u2019s car and cell phone after the murder. Walker v. State<\/a>, 2016 Tex. App. LEXIS 8398 (Tex. App. \u2013 Houston (14th Dist.) Aug. 4, 2016).<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause the trial court did not enter findings of fact, we view the evidence in the light most favorable to the trial court’s ruling, we assume that the trial court made implicit findings of fact that support its ruling as long as the record supports those findings, and we will sustain the trial court’s ruling if the record reasonably supports it. Cole, __ S.W.3d at ___. 2016 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 84, 2016 WL 3018203, at *3.\u201d The blood draw was on exigent circumstances. Cosino v. State<\/a>, 2016 Tex. App. LEXIS 8294 (Tex. App. \u2013 Waco Aug. 3, 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Text messages between a murder victim and the defendant just before the murder supported probable cause to search defendant\u2019s cell phone. Defendant was found with the victim\u2019s car and cell phone after the murder. Walker v. State, 2016 Tex. App. … Continue reading →<\/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":[5,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-standards-of-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23293","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=23293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23294,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23293\/revisions\/23294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}