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  2. In Texas, can police search my cellphone when they pull me ...

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    The Bill of Rights prevents law enforcement from searching cell phones during a traffic stop without a judge-issued warrant. The Fourth Amendment prohibits “unreasonable search and seizure ...

  3. Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Wikipedia

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    However, in 1958, the revision of the code was undertaken by a 23-person committee formed of the Texas State Bar with a tripartite goal to remove technicalities and loopholes by which a party can exploit the law, reform the appeal system, and "strike the delicate balance" of protecting the people of Texas from crime while also preventing others ...

  4. Searches incident to a lawful arrest - Wikipedia

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    Search incident to a lawful arrest, commonly known as search incident to arrest (SITA) or the Chimel rule (from Chimel v.California), is a U.S. legal principle that allows police to perform a warrantless search of an arrested person, and the area within the arrestee’s immediate control, in the interest of officer safety, the prevention of escape, and the preservation of evidence.

  5. Plain view doctrine - Wikipedia

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    The Horton ruling also clarified that the officer must have a "lawful right of access" to the objects to seize them under the plain view doctrine. [12] For example, an officer who sees contraband in plain view in someone's home through the window but is not authorized to enter the home cannot rely on the plain view doctrine to enter the home ...

  6. Police Cannot Seize Property Indefinitely After an Arrest ...

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    Many circuit courts have said that law enforcement can hold your property for as long as they want. D.C.’s high court decided last week that’s unconstitutional.

  7. Search and seizure - Wikipedia

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    Dareton police search the vehicle of a suspected drug smuggler in Wentworth, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, near the border with Victoria.. Search and seizure is a procedure used in many civil law and common law legal systems by which police or other authorities and their agents, who, suspecting that a crime has been committed, commence a search of a person's property and ...

  8. Warrantless searches in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Warrantless searches are searches and seizures conducted without court-issued search warrants.. In the United States, warrantless searches are restricted under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, which states, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not ...

  9. Consent search - Wikipedia

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    One is the "Consent to Search" law which requires an officer to inform someone they have the right to deny a search and to make sure that person understands that right. The other is the "NYPD ID" law, which requires the officer, in certain situations, to hand out business cards with their name, rank, badge number and command. [19] [20] [21]