Legal Opinion
Valtierra v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided May 5, 2010No. PD-0906-09PublishedCited by 661 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · CochranCochran, J.
This appeal concerns the scope of a consent to search under the Fourth Amendment. Both the trial court and the court of appeals agreed that Heriberto Valtierra consented to have police officers enter his apartment to talk to Erica, a 13-year-old runaway. The question before us is whether, viewed in the light most favorable to the trial court’s ruling, the evidence is sufficient to show that the scope of Heriberto’s consent extended to the officer’s act of walking down the open hallway to knock on the bathroom door where Erica was said to be taking a shower. The trial court upheld the…
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