{"id":29604,"date":"2017-10-08T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T05:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29604"},"modified":"2017-10-07T19:35:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T00:35:26","slug":"tx14-private-search-in-texas-not-subject-to-statute-exclusionary-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29604","title":{"rendered":"TX14: Private search in Texas not subject to statute exclusionary rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s girlfriend accessed his cell phones: his Android wasn\u2019t password protected but his iPhone was but she knew the password. This was a private search, and the Texas statutory exclusionary rule doesn\u2019t apply. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=5665686f-d08f-4e0f-9195-b911ce2f9db3&#038;MediaID=16cddf82-cf47-4aea-81a6-e32e75b78524&#038;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&#038;DT=Opinion\">Thomas v. State<\/a>, 2017 Tex. App. LEXIS 9281 (Tex. App. \u2013 Houston (14th Dist.) Oct. 3, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>Based on the odor of alcohol and defendant&#8217;s admission that there was an open container in his vehicle, there existed probable cause to search defendant&#8217;s vehicle for the open container. That led to a plain view of a marijuana pipe. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=eb940582-4eee-4923-ad3b-c349e0f367ce&#038;MediaID=9062b150-c55f-413d-8f55-74900b57e596&#038;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&#038;DT=Opinion\">Elrod v. State<\/a>, 2017 Tex. App. LEXIS 9314 (Tex. App. \u2013 Texarkana Oct. 4, 2017).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s girlfriend accessed his cell phones: his Android wasn\u2019t password protected but his iPhone was but she knew the password. This was a private search, and the Texas statutory exclusionary rule doesn\u2019t apply. Thomas v. State, 2017 Tex. App. LEXIS &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29604\">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":[14,51,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exclusionary-rule","category-plain-view","category-private-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29604","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=29604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29605,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29604\/revisions\/29605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}