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Neal v. State

Citations

  • 256 S.W.3d 264
  • 2008 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 754
  • 2008 WL 2437667

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that trial court's error \was harmless in light of the overwhelming evidence of guilt shown by other evidence\
  • holding that when the automobile exception applies, officers may search “every part of the vehicle and its contents that may conceal the object of the search.”
  • stating that probable cause to search exists when there is a “fair probability” of finding inculpatory evidence at the location being searched
  • explaining that when automobile exception applies, police are authorized to search every part of vehicle and contents that may conceal object of search
  • noting that police may search “every part of the vehicle and its contents that may conceal the object of the search” without warrant or exigent circumstances if police have probable cause to believe that vehicle contains evidence of crime
  • noting that police may search \every part of the vehicle and its contents that may conceal the object of the search\ without warrant or exigent circumstances if police have probable cause to believe that vehicle contains evidence of crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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

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

Cites

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