{"id":43846,"date":"2020-05-22T08:46:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43846"},"modified":"2020-05-22T08:46:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:46:40","slug":"tx13-affidavit-for-sw-shouldnt-have-been-admitted-at-trial-but-it-was-harmless-error-as-cumulative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43846","title":{"rendered":"TX13: Affidavit for SW shouldn&#8217;t have been admitted at trial, but it was harmless error as cumulative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The state conceded error that the affidavit for defendant\u2019s blood search warrant should not have been admitted into evidence at trial. (Defendant objected to a paragraph of hearsay.) It was, however, harmless error and merely cumulative to what the officer already testifed to. Sanchez v. State, 2020 Tex. App. LEXIS 4014 (Tex. App. \u2013 Corpus Christi &#8211; Edinburg (May 21, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Search of defendant\u2019s outgoing mail from a jail was reasonable. He was suspected of contacting witnesses. United States v. Mayer, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 89226 (D. Minn. Apr. 14, 2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state conceded error that the affidavit for defendant\u2019s blood search warrant should not have been admitted into evidence at trial. (Defendant objected to a paragraph of hearsay.) It was, however, harmless error and merely cumulative to what the officer &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=43846\">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":[124,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admissibility-of-evidence","category-prison-and-jail-searches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43847,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43846\/revisions\/43847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}