{"id":4513,"date":"2010-12-29T14:16:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T05:47:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T05:47:15","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4513","title":{"rendered":"TX8: Riding a bicycle without a helmet justified search incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant\u2019s search incident for riding a bicycle without a helmet was reasonable. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.8thcoa.courts.state.tx.us\/opinions\/HTMLopinion.asp?OpinionID=65321\">State v. Portillo<\/a>, 314 S.W.3d 210 (Tex. App.\u2013El Paso 2010):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A peace officer may arrest an offender without a warrant for any offense committed in his presence or within his view. Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Ann. art. 14.01(b)  (Vernon 2005). A search incident to an arrest permits officers to search a defendant, or areas within the defendant&#8217;s immediate control, in order to remove any weapons that the arrestee may seek to use in order to resist arrest or effect escape. Chimel v. California, 395 U.S. 752, 763, 89 S.Ct. 2034, 2040, 23 L.Ed.2d 685 (1969); see McGee v. State, 105 S.W.3d 609, 615 (Tex. Crim. App. 2003). An arresting officer may also search for and seize any evidence on the arrestee&#8217;s person in order to prevent its concealment or destruction. Chimel, 395 U.S. at 763, 89 S.Ct. at 2040; see McGee, 105 S.W.3d at 615.<\/p>\n<p>Because Officer McOsker observed Portillo riding a bicycle without a helmet as required by the Dallas bicycle helmet ordinance, he was permitted to arrest Portillo for the ordinance violation and search Portillo incident to the arrest. Chimel, 395 U.S. at 763, 89 S.Ct. at 2040; see McGee, 105 S.W.3d at 615. Consequently, we find that the trial court clearly abused its discretion when it suppressed the evidence, here cocaine, which was the fruit of a lawful search conducted incident to a warrantless arrest for violation of a valid ordinance. See Wood, 828 S.W.2d at 474; see also Cantu v. State, 817 S.W.2d 74, 77 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991). Accordingly, we sustain the State&#8217;s sole issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Incredible. I&#8217;m sure there was evidence of that offense to be found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4513\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}