Martin v. Texas (original by judge slaughter)
Annotate this CaseThe issue this case presented for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals centered on whether a police officer's entry into a residence was reasonable under the Forth Amendment, when a firefighter, in the line of duty, asked law enforcement for a safety check after seeing drug paraphernalia, guns, and flammable liquids in the residence, and whether that officer’s discovery of drug paraphernalia in plain view provided probable cause for a search warrant? The short answer to this question under the specific facts of this case was yes: the Court therefore upheld the court of appeals’ judgment which affirmed the trial court’s denial of Appellant’s motion to suppress the drug evidence found pursuant to a search warrant.
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