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Keehn v. State

Citations

  • 279 S.W.3d 330
  • 2009 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 425
  • 2009 WL 774854

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that appellate court must consider all evidence in record, viewed in favor of trial court’s fact findings, and determine whether it supports trial court’s finding
  • holding that the automobile exception allowed the warrantless search of a vehicle when items in plain view gave the officer probable cause to believe the vehicle contained contraband
  • holding that the State could not rely on the plain view doctrine to enter a car without a warrant where drug manufacturing materials were visible but no other exigency existed
  • noting that Fourth Amendment jurisprudence “recognizes that individuals possess a greater privacy interest in a fixed residence” as opposed to motor home or regular vehicle
  • holding once officers observed contraband in plain view inside vehicle automobile exception authorized their entry and seizure of item
  • holding that police had the right to enter and search a vehicle parked in the defendant’s driveway based on probable cause that there was evidence of the crime in the vehicle immediately after they saw a propane tank through the window of the vehicle

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Keasler, Keller, Meyers, Price, Womack, Johnson, Hervey, Cochran, Holcomb

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181 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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