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Delgado v. State

Citations

  • 718 S.W.2d 718
  • 1986 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 827

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  • holding that impoundment and subsequent inventory search of defendant’s car lawful where defendant was arrested for selling narcotics in apartment complex parking lot and his car was parked in lot
  • noting that impoundment is necessary if no one is available to take possession of vehicle
  • noting that impoundment is necessary if no one is available to take possession of vehicle
  • distinguishing use of force in Gill from situation in which officer uses defendant’s key to access and inventory locked trunk
  • upholding 23 impoundment where defendant was outside his vehicle in a motel parking lot when officers approached him and arrested him after observing narcotic paraphernalia
  • finding the warrantless arrest legal even though the fact that the hypodermic syringe in the instant case later was shown by a laboratory report not to contain a controlled substance, contrary to the police officer's impression at the scene

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Judges: Onion, Clinton

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