David Trey Odell v. the State of Texas

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• holding that the question of whether police had a reasonable basis for finding \that a third party had authority to consent to search\ is a question of law
• holding that the question of whether police had a reasonable basis for finding “that a third party had authority to consent to search” is a question of law
• noting that an officer with consent to search requires neither a warrant nor probable cause to carry out the search
• explaining that “the court of appeals ought not to assume that a defendant’s sentence under the new discretionary regime would be the same and therefore that a remand is superfluous”
• approvingly citing Green, but concluding that a stop to see if the person stopped is the person named in a warrant is illegal and that the evidence discovered incident to a subsequent arrest must he suppressed
• \An officer with consent needs neither a warrant nor probable cause to conduct a constitutional search.\

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