{"id":8741,"date":"2013-09-19T07:54:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T08:43:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T08:43:05","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8741","title":{"rendered":"TX: Dog\/housesitter had apparent authority to search computer after she found CP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defendant hired a woman who stayed in his house to take care of his dog. There were no restrictions on the use of his computer, and she went into his bedroom and moved the mouse and tried to copy a song to her phone. She copied the song to the computer then tried to remove it, and she found child pornography which she reported. There were no restrictions on her use of the unpassword protected computer. It never came up. She had apparent authority as far as the police were concerned with her private search. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cca.courts.state.tx.us\/opinions\/HTMLopinionInfo.asp?OpinionID=24070\">Baird v. State<\/a>, 398 S.W.3d 220 (Tex. Crim. App. 2013) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cca.courts.state.tx.us\/opinions\/HTMLopinionInfo.asp?OpinionID=24086\">concur<\/a>) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cca.courts.state.tx.us\/opinions\/HTMLopinionInfo.asp?OpinionID=24087\">dissent<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Two trash seizures yielded drug residue, and the second confirmed the first and kept it from being stale. Common sense, contrary to the trial court\u2019s finding of none, dictated that the mail found in the trash bin was related to the drug residue. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=a1000a14-8228-45d4-816f-a72eb5549e24&amp;MediaID=f0e50cb6-9e5f-46fc-97a1-73c398e98a86&amp;coa=coa02&amp;DT=Opinion\">State v. York<\/a>, 404 S.W.3d 681 (Tex. App. \u2013 Ft. Worth 2013).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8741\">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-8741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741","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=8741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}