Keehn v. State

OPINION

SUE WALKER, Justice.

I. Introduction

In this appeal, Appellant Darrell Jay Keehn raises a single point challenging the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress. Keehn contends that officers’ war-rantless entry into an unoccupied van that was parked in the driveway in front of his residence violated the Fourth Amendment and Article I, Section 9 of the Texas Constitution. Because in this case a police officer observed a propane tank that had a bluish-green discoloration near its valve in plain view in the back of a van as he walked down the driveway and by the van on his way to the…