David Len Moulton v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• “When there is probable cause to search an automobile stopped on a highway, an immediate search is constitutionally permissible”
• court chose to address issue not raised before motion judge in order to provide guidance to Commonwealth on forfeiture issues
• “it is not the existence of probable cause itself that justifies an exception to the warrant requirement”; rather, probable cause supplies the basis for a warrant
• under state statutory law, “the Commonwealth must show probable cause for an investigative search or for a forfeiture to a neutral magistrate who may then issue the proper search warrant or temporary orders relevant to forfeiture”
• warrant required for additional searches conducted \over a span of twenty-one days\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).