COURT OF APPEALS

EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

EL PASO, TEXAS

THE STATE OF TEXAS,

 Appellant,

v.

VICENTE MUNOZ,

 Appellee.

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No. 08-13-00164-CR

Appeal from the

171st District Court 

of El Paso County, Texas 

(TC#20120D03021) 

O P I N I O N

Vicente Munoz was charged by indictment of Felony driving while intoxicated. The 

State of Texas appeals the trial court’s order granting Vicente Munoz’s motion to suppress his

blood test result that was obtained as a result of his arrest for DWI. The trial court’s findings of 

fact and conclusions of law reflect the sole basis for suppression of the blood test result was the 

State’s failure to show exigent circumstances to support the warrantless, non-consensual blood 

draw. Finding the State failed to establish a valid exception to the warrant requirement, we 

affirm the trial court’s suppression order.

FACTUAL SUMMARY

On September 5, 2009, about 8:17 p.m., El Paso Police Officer Jordan was on patrol 

when she was dispatched to a call involving a suspicious vehicle. The reporter had observed a 

red pickup truck sitting in the street, with the engine off and the headlights on. Officer Jordan 
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arrived at approximately 8:20 p.m. and spoke with the reporter. Officer Jordan approached the 

truck on the driver’s side. The officer discovered Munoz asleep in the front seat with a can of 

beer between his legs, the keys in the ignition, the engine off, and the headlights on. Officer 

Jordan woke Munoz up and smelled a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage. When Munoz exited 

the truck, the officer observed him to have an unsteady balance, red blood-shot eyes, and exhibit 

slurred speech. Munoz refused to submit to a breath test. Munoz was transported to the station 

at 9:13 p.m. The station is about five to six blocks away and it takes a couple of minutes from 

Munoz’s vehicle to arrive there.

On the way to the station, Officer Jordan passed the Municipal Court building which 

houses a magistrate on duty from 9:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. every night. Officer Jordan stated that 

to get a warrant, she would have to go before the magistrate, “get it signed and get the warrant.” 

She acknowledged she did not attempt to get a warrant nor was she prevented from getting one. 

Officer Jordan testified that she was aware that she could have obtained a warrant had she 

wanted. Officer Jordan explained to the court that she did not get a warrant because at that time 

the law allowed a mandatory blood draw if an individual had two prior convictions. She stated 

the only reason she failed to obtain the warrant was because she relied on the mandatory blood 

draw statute.

After Munoz was placed in custody, it was determined he had seven prior convictions for

DWI. Based on Munoz’s prior convictions, he was immediately taken to the hospital for a 

mandatory blood draw.

PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On December 14, 2012, the trial court, after a hearing on a motion to suppress statements, 

evidence, and the blood test result, orally denied the motion. On May 2, 2013, Munoz filed a 
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second motion to suppress the blood test result relying on Missouri v. McNeely, ___ U.S. ___, 

133 S.Ct. 1552, 185 L.Ed.2d 696 (2013). On May 6, 2013, the trial court heard argument of 

counsel regarding Munoz’s second motion to suppress and denied it again. On the day of 

Munoz’s jury trial, May 14, 2013, the trial court heard additional testimony from Officer Jordan 

and suppressed the blood test result.1 Munoz argued that no exigent circumstances were shown 

and a warrantless blood draw could not be permitted under McNeely. The State argued McNeely

did not apply in states which had legislatively-mandated blood draws for repeat offenders such as 

Texas. Next, the State contended the blood test result should not be excluded because the 

officers were acting in good-faith reliance upon the law.

The trial court entered thirty-six findings of fact and six conclusions of law. The relevant 

Findings of Fact are as follows:

5. At 8:22 p.m., Detective Jordan arrived at the scene.2

. . .

18. Defendant declined to submit to Standardized Field Sobriety Tests (SFSTs) 

and the breath test.

. . .

26. Approximately 10 minutes elapsed from the time Detective arrived at the 

scene to the time Detective arrested the Defendant.

. . .

28. At 9:15 p.m., Defendant arrived at the station.

29. At the station, EPPD Officer Art Senclair discovered that the Defendant had at 

least two prior Driving While Intoxicated convictions.

 

1 The trial court heard the initial motion to suppress in December 2014. McNeely was decided in April 2013, and the 

trial court’s suppression order was rendered a month later.

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In 2013, at the time of the hearing, Officer Jordan had been promoted to Detective.
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30. EPPD did not acquire a warrant to draw blood from the Defendant.

31. On September 5, 2009, Detective Jordan could have acquired a warrant for a 

blood draw, if she wanted to get one on that date.

32. On September 5, 2009, nothing prevented Detective Jordan from acquiring a 

warrant for a blood draw. 

33. There is a magistrate on duty every night from 9:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. at the 

Municipal Court building which was closer to the location where Defendant was 

arrested than the Police station where Defendant was transported.

34. At 10:25 p.m., Officer Art Senclair followed Texas Transportation Code 

section 724.012(b)(3)(B), and transported Defendant to Las Palmas hospital for a 

blood draw.

35. Registered nurse Michael Windham drew Defendant’s blood at Las Palmas 

hospital.

36. The lab result revealed that Defendant’s blood alcohol level was 0.23.

The relevant Conclusions of Law are as follows:

1. Missouri v. McNeely, 133 S.Ct. 1552 requires exigent circumstances in order 

to conduct a warrantless blood draw.

. . .

3. The State did not present any evidence that constituted exigent circumstances.

. . .

5. Texas Transportation Code, section 724.012 (b) (3) (B) allows for a 

warrantless blood draw on an individual with two or more previous DWI 

convictions.

6. Pursuant to McNeely, this governmental interest does not justify a 

departure from obtaining a warrant, unless there are exigent circumstances 

present.

DISCUSSION

The State in a single point of error raises two sub-issues. First, the State contends that the 

trial court erred by relying on Missouri v. McNeely in suppressing the warrantless blood test 
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result obtained pursuant to the implied-consent and mandatory-blood-draw provisions in the 

Texas Transportation Code § 724.012(b).

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See TEX.TRANSP.CODE ANN. § 724.012(b)(West

2011). According to the State, McNeely decided the narrow issue of whether the dissipation of 

alcohol constituted a per se exigency that allowed for a warrantless blood draw in DWI cases. 

Therefore, the State concludes McNeely is inapplicable here given that the State relied on the 

Texas Transportation Code for implied consent of a warrantless blood-draw in DWI cases 

involving an accident or prior convictions. TEX.TRANSP.CODE ANN. §§724.011, 724.012(b).

Second, even if McNeely applies, the State posits, the officers acted in objective 

reasonable reliance upon then-binding precedent and Section 724.012(b), so therefore, the blood 

test result are not subject to the Fourth Amendment’s exclusionary rule. The State further argues 

Munoz’s 2009 blood test result was not obtained in violation of the law, because the blood draw 

occurred prior to the issuance of McNeely in April 2013. The State asserts that in 2009, the 

officers acted in “objective reasonable reliance” under existing precedent and Munoz’s 

warrantless blood draw was proper and therefore, not subject to exclusion under the Fourth 

Amendment.

Munoz responds that under McNeely, a warrantless blood draw is reasonable only if it 

 

3 TEX.TRANSP.CODE ANN. § 724.012(b) provides:

(b) a peace officer shall require the taking of a specimen of the person’s breath or blood under any 

of the following circumstances if the officer arrests the person for an offense under Chapter 49,

Penal Code, involving the operation of a motor vehicle . . . and the person refuses the officer’s 

request to submit to the taking of a specimen voluntarily:

. . .

(3) at the time of the arrest, the officer possesses or receives reliable information from a credible 

source that the person:

. . .

(B) on two or more occasions, has been previously convicted of or placed on community 

supervision for an offense under Section 49.04 [misdemeanor DWI] . . . .
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falls within a recognized exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement. Munoz 

contends, under these facts, the State has failed to secure a warrant or prove any permissible 

constitutional exception applies.

STANDARD OF REVIEW

When reviewing a motion to suppress, we apply a bifurcated standard of review. See Crain 

v. State, 315 S.W.3d 43, 48 (Tex.Crim.App. 2010); State v. Terrazas, 406 S.W.3d 689, 692 

(Tex.App.--El Paso 2013, no pet.). We afford almost total deference to the trial court’s findings 

of historical fact that are supported by the record, and to mixed questions of law and fact that 

turn on an assessment of a witnesses’ credibility or demeanor. Valtierra v. State, 310 S.W.3d

442, 447 (Tex.Crim.App. 2010); Amador v. State, 221 S.W.3d 666, 673 (Tex.Crim.App. 2007); 

Guzman v. State, 955 S.W.2d 85, 89 (Tex.Crim.App. 1997). The trial court’s determination of 

legal questions and its application of the law to facts that do not turn upon a determination of 

witness credibility and demeanor are reviewed de novo. See Valtierra, 310 S.W.3d at 447; 

Amador, 221 S.W.3d at 673; Kothe v. State, 152 S.W.3d 54, 62-63 (Tex.Crim.App. 2004); 

Guzman, 955 S.W.2d at 89.

When, as here, the trial judge makes express findings of fact, we must first determine 

whether the evidence, when viewed in the light most favorable to the trial court’s ruling, 

supports those findings. Valtierra, 310 S.W.3d at 447; State v. Kelly, 204 S.W.3d 808, 818 

(Tex.Crim.App. 2006). We review a trial court’s legal ruling de novo. State v. Iduarte, 268 

S.W.3d 544, 548-49 (Tex.Crim.App. 2008). Furthermore, we must uphold the trial court’s ruling 

if it is supported by the record and correct under any theory of law applicable to the case. State 

v. White, 306 S.W.3d 753, 757 n.10 (Tex.Crim.App. 2010). “This principal holds true even 

when the trial judge gives the wrong reason for his decision, and is especially true with regard to 
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admission of evidence.” State v. Esparza, 353 S.W.3d 276, 282 (Tex.App.--El Paso 2011, pet. 

granted), aff’d State v. Esparza, 413 S.W.3d 81 (Tex.Crim.App. 2013), quoting Romero v. State,

800 S.W.2d 539, 543 (Tex.Crim.App. 1990). “The evident purpose of this rule is to ensure that a 

trial court ruling will be upheld if the appellate court has assurance that the ruling was just and 

lawful.” Esparza, 353 S.W.3d at 282, quoting White, 306 S.W.3d at 757 n.10.

SUPPRESSION OF BLOOD TEST RESULT

In Schmerber v. California, 384 U.S. 757, 86 S.Ct. 1826, 16 L.Ed.2d 908 (1966), the 

United States Supreme Court held that an involuntary blood draw is permissible under a Fourth 

Amendment analysis. Initially, the Court noted that the taking of a blood specimen from a 

person is a search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment. Id. at 767, 86 S.Ct. at 1834. The 

Court outlined “special facts” under which an involuntary blood draw is reasonable. Id. at 770-

771, 86 S.Ct. at 1835-36. The Court’s analysis concluded that, in light of the potential for the 

destruction of alcohol evidence in a person’s body, and involuntary blood draw is permitted 

under the Fourth Amendment where there is a delay by law enforcement in investigating an 

accident; and there is no time to apply for a warrant and locate a magistrate. Id.

In Missouri v. McNeely, the Court expounded further, explicitly stating that a warrantless 

blood draw must fall under one of the recognized exceptions to the Fourth Amendment. 133 

S.Ct. at 1558. The Court held that the dissipation of alcohol from the body per se is insufficient 

to create an exigent circumstance to justify a warrantless seizure of a defendant’s blood. 

McNeely, 133 S.Ct. at 1560-61. The Court instructed us that whether the exigent circumstances 

exception is satisfied must be viewed case by case in light of the totality of the circumstances. 

Id.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals finally addressed the tension between our statutory 
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implied consent, Texas Transportation Code section 724.012(b)(3)(B) and McNeely in State v. 

Villarreal.4 State v. Villarreal, No. PD-0306-14, ___ S.W.3d ___, 2014 WL 6734178, at *1 

(Tex.Crim.App. Nov. 26, 2014)(reh’g granted). In Villarreal, the facts are almost identical to the 

case at hand.

In 2012, Villarreal was stopped for a traffic violation and observed to be swaying back 

and forth, had red, watery eyes, and slurred speech, in addition to a strong odor of alcohol. Id. 

Villarreal was placed under arrest for DWI. Id. After the discovery of Villarreal’s several 

previous convictions of DWI, the officer took Villarreal to a hospital for a blood draw. Id., at *2. 

Villarreal’s blood test result indicated “a blood-alcohol concentration of .16 grams of alcohol per 

hundred milliliters of blood.” Id. Due to Villarreal’s prior convictions, he was subsequently 

indicted for a felony DWI. Id.

At the evidentiary hearing on Villarreal’s motion to suppress, the State’s sole witness 

testified he “could have” obtained a warrant but did not and relied on “the mandatory-blooddraw provision in the Code.” Id.; TEX.TRANSP.CODE ANN. § 724.012(b). Further, the officer 

stated his decision to conduct the blood draw was based only on the statutory authority and not 

on any emergency or exigent circumstances. Villarreal, 2014 WL 6734178, at *2. The parties 

stipulated Villarreal’s blood draw was taken without his consent or a warrant. Id. Villarreal 

argued McNeely applied and thus the blood draw was unconstitutional. Id. The State contended 

that McNeely did not apply to mandatory blood draws because of our implied consent statutes. 

Id.

 

4 We note the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has granted the State’s motion for rehearing in this case on 

February 25, 2015, but has not withdrawn its opinion on original submission. While Villarreal’s future precedential 

value is not certain, we believe the opinion is persuasive and absent any other guidance from the Texas Court of 

Criminal Appeals, we will continue to apply its reasoning. See Perez v. State, No. 01-12-01001-CR, ___S.W.2d 

___, 2015 WL 1245469, at *6 (Tex.App.--Houston [1st Dist.] Mar. 17, 2015, pet. filed)(applying the Villarreal

holding after the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted rehearing).
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The Court, after extensive analysis, held “that a nonconsensual search of a DWI suspect’s 

blood conducted pursuant to the mandatory-blood-draw and implied-consent provisions in the 

Transportation Code, when undertaken in the absence of a warrant or any applicable exception to 

the warrant requirement, violates the Fourth Amendment.” Id., at *21. Our sister courts in 

applying Villarreal have joined the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in soundly rejecting the 

State’s argument that McNeely has limited applicability when construed in conjunction with the 

Texas Transportation Code § 724.012(b)(3)(B). See State v. Tercero, ___ S.W.3d ___, No. 01-

14-00120-CR, 2015 WL 1544519 (Tex.App.--Houston [1st Dist.] April 2, 2015, pet. filed); 

Chidyausiku v. State, 457 S.W.3d 627 (Tex.App.--Fort Worth 2015, pet. filed); State v. Garcia, 

457 S.W.3d 546 (Tex.App.--San Antonio 2015, pet. filed); Lloyd v. State, 453 S.W.3d 544 

(Tex.App.--Dallas 2014, pet. ref’d); Cole v. State, 454 S.W.3d 89 (Tex.App.--Texarkana 2014, 

pet. granted); Clement v. State, 461 S.W.3d 274 (Tex.App.--Eastland 2015, pet. filed); State v. 

Martinez, No. 13-14-00117-CR, 2015 WL 1957087 (Tex.App.--Corpus Christi April 30, 2015, 

no pet. h.)(mem. op., not designated for publication); Evans v. State, No. 14-13-00642-CR, 2015 

WL 545702 (Tex.App.--Houston [14th Dist.] Feb. 10, 2015, pet. filed)(mem. op., not designated 

for publication).

Likewise, our previous approach has followed Villarreal. See Burcie v. State, No. 08-13-

00212-CR, 2015 WL 2342876 (Tex.App.--El Paso May 14, 2015, pet. filed)(not designated for 

publication). In Burcie, like the case before us, the facts were not in dispute and the State had 

failed to raise any recognizable exception to the Fourth Amendment. The record here shows the 

officer relied on the implied consent under the Texas Transportation Code and could have 

obtained a warrant but chose not to. Like Villarreal and Burcie, the State relies on the implied 

consent and mandatory-blood-draw provisions of the Texas Transportation Code to support the 
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admission of the blood test result. The trial court concluded as a matter of law the State failed to 

present “any evidence that constituted exigent circumstances.” The record supports that 

conclusion. Given that the Texas Transportation Code’s mandatory-blood-draw is not a valid 

exception to the Fourth Amendment, the trial court did not err in suppressing the blood test 

result.

We find under Missouri v. McNeely and State v. Villarreal the State’s first sub-issue is 

overruled.

GOOD-FAITH RELIANCE

The State, in their second sub-issue, urges us to find the trial court erred because in 2009 

the blood draw was not obtained in violation of federal Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule nor 

Texas’ exclusionary rule found in Article 38.23 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. 

TEX.CODE CRIM.PROC.ANN. art. 38.23 (West 2005). That statute provides evidence may not be 

used or admitted in the criminal trial against the defendant if the evidence is obtained by “an 

officer or other person in violation of any provisions of the Constitution or laws of the State of 

Texas, or of the Constitution or laws of the United States of America[.]” TEX.CODE 

CRIM.PROC.ANN. art. 38.23(a). Moreover, the State contends, in 2009, at the time of Munoz’s 

blood draw, the officers acted in objective reasonable reliance of the existing law.

First, the State argues that Munoz’s blood test was not obtained in contravention of then 

existing federal precedent and therefore, even if McNeely applies, the blood test should not be 

excluded. The State cites Davis v. United States, for the proposition that the “exclusionary rule 

is limited to situations in which deterrence is ‘thought most efficaciously served.’” Davis v. 

United States, __ U.S. __, 131 S.Ct. 2419, 2426, 180 L.Ed.2d 285 (2011), citing U.S. v. 

Calandra, 414 U.S. 338, 348, 94 S.Ct. 613, 620, 38 L.Ed.2d 561 (1974). As the State correctly 
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points out, Davis made clear a constitutional violation does not always mandate the applicability 

of exclusionary rule. The Davis court explained the exclusionary rule never applies to the 

suppression of evidence when it was obtained “as a result of nonculpable, innocent police 

conduct.” 131 S.Ct. at 2429. The State also pointed to the holdings in Krull, Leon, and Peltier

to illustrate that the United States Supreme Court has prohibited the application of the Fourth 

Amendment’s exclusionary rule when an officer has in good-faith, objectively and reasonably

relied on a then constitutional statute or valid search warrant. Illinois v. Krull, 480 U.S. 340, 

347, 350, 197 S.Ct. 1160, 1165-66, 94 L.Ed.2d 364 (1987); United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897, 

922 104 S.Ct. 3405, 3420, 82 L.Ed.2d 677 (1984); United States v. Peltier, 422 U.S. 531, 537, 95 

S.Ct. 2313, 2317-18, 45 L.Ed.2d 374 (1975).

Relying on Swink v. State and Elias v. State, the State contends that McNeely should not 

be applied retroactively. Swink v. State, 617 S.W.2d 203, 209-210 (Tex.Crim.App. 

1981)(overruled on other grounds by Griffin v. State, 765 S.W.2d 422 (Tex.Crim.App. 1989)); 

State v. Elias, No. 08-08-00085-CR, 2012 WL 4392245, at *7 (Tex.App.--El Paso Sept. 26, 

2012, pet. ref’d)(not designated for publication). In Swink, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals 

held “that the warrantless search and seizure of the premises by the officers was permissible at 

the time of their actions and that the holding of Mincey will not be applied retroactively to this 

case.” Swink, 617 S.W.2d at 210. The Court explained the “search was conducted some six 

months before the decision in Mincey while the trial was held six months after the decision. . . . 

Thus, at the time officers conducted the warrantless search of the murder scene, their actions did 

not run afoul of the holding in Mincey.” Id. at 209. See Mincey v. Arizona, 437 U.S. 385, 98 

S.Ct. 2408, 57 L.Ed.2d 290 (1978).

In Elias, relying on Davis v. United States, __ U.S. __, 131 S.Ct. 2419, 180 L.Ed.2d 285 
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(2011), we held that “the search of Elias’s van was unconstitutional under Gant, [however] the 

police conducted the search in 2007 in good faith reliance on appellate precedent authorizing the 

search incident to arrest. Accordingly, we conclude that the exclusionary rule does not apply in 

this case.” Elias, 2012 WL 4392245, at *7. See Arizona v. Gant, 556 U.S. 332, 129 S.Ct. 1710, 

173 L.Ed.2d 485 (2009). Thus, Swink refused to apply Mincey retroactively. Swink, 617 S.W.2d 

at 210. Likewise, Elias did not apply Gant retroactively, relying on the federal doctrine of the 

officers’ good faith reliance under Davis. Elias, 2012 WL 4392245, at *7. Neither case alludes 

to or discusses the Texas exclusionary rule under Article 38.23 and its application to an officer’s 

good faith reliance on then-constitutional statutes and former binding precedent. TEX.CODE

CRIM.PROC.ANN. art. 38.23. We note that Swink and Elias are specifically limited to the 

application of Mincey and Gant. Our research has failed to uncover any Texas case, under these 

facts, declining to retroactively apply McNeely and the State has not cited to any.

The United States Supreme Court in Griffith explained that “failure to apply a newly 

declared constitutional rule to criminal cases pending on direct review violates basic norms of 

constitutional adjudication.” Griffith v. Kentucky, 479 U.S. 314, 322, 107 S.Ct. 708, 713, 93 

L.Ed.2d 649 (1987). The Griffith Court held that a newly announced constitutional rule for 

conducting criminal prosecutions must be applied retroactively to all cases, state or federal, 

pending on direct review or not yet final when the rule was announced regardless whether they 

constitute a clear break from the past. Griffith, 479 U.S. at 328, 107 S.Ct. at 716. See 

McClintock v. State, 444 S.W.3d 15 (Tex.CrimApp. 2014). The Supreme Court’s retroactivity 

analysis for federal constitutional errors is binding upon the states when federal constitutional 

errors are involved. James B. Beam Distilling Co. v. Georgia, 501 U.S. 529, 535, 111 S.Ct. 
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2439, 2443, 115 L.Ed.2d 481 (1991). This case was not yet final when McNeely was decided in 

April 2013 and it applies here on direct appeal.

The court in Douds v. State, held the good-faith reliance exception does not apply in 

Texas. Douds v. State, 434 S.W.3d 842, 861 (Tex.App.--Houston [14th Dist.] 2014, pet. 

granted)(en banc). The Texas Supreme Court has resisted efforts to expand the good-faith

exception using federal precedent, especially in those instances when the federal exceptions 

conflict with our statutory exclusionary rule. Howard v. State, 617 S.W.2d 191, 193 

(Tex.Crim.App. 1979)(op. on reh’g)(rejecting the federal good-faith doctrine of Michigan v. 

DeFillippo, 443 U.S. 31, 99 S.Ct. 2627, 61 L.Ed.2d 343 (1979)); also see State v. Daugherty,

931 S.W.2d 268 (Tex.Crim.App. 1996). Other Texas Courts of Appeals have come to that same 

conclusion, specifically when evaluating the admissibility of blood test results under McNeely. 

Douds, 434 S.W.3d at 862; see also State v. Anderson, 445 S.W.3d 895, 912 (Tex.App.--

Beaumont 2014, no pet.); Tercero, 2015 WL 1544519, at *6. We decline the State’s invitation to 

create a good-faith reliance exception to the application of McNeely.

Lastly we consider whether Texas’s exclusionary rule as codified in the Code of Criminal 

Procedure article 38.23 allows for the admission of the blood test result. The exception to 

Texas’s exclusionary rule is legislative and found in Article 38.23(b) which only applies when a 

warrant issued by a neutral magistrate, based on probable cause, and is relied upon by the officer 

in good-faith. TEX.CODE CRIM.PROC.ANN. art. 38.23(b). As a result of the lack of a warrant 

being issued, the statutory exception in Article 38.23(b) does not apply here. Douds, 434 S.W.3d 

at 861; Anderson, 445 S.W.3d at 912; Tercero, 2015 WL 1544519, at *6-*7; Burks v. State, 454 

S.W.3d 705, 709 (Tex.App.--Fort Worth 2015, pet. filed); Martinez v. State, No. 04-13-00764-

CR, 2014 WL 5837162, at *2 (Tex.App.--San Antonio Nov. 12, 2014, pet. filed)(mem. op., not 
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designated for publication); Weems v. State, 434 S.W.3d 655, 666 (Tex.App.--San Antonio 2014, 

pet. granted); State v. Stewart, No. 09-13-00421-CR, 2014 WL 5855905, at *4 (Tex.App.--

Beaumont Nov. 12, 2014, pet. ref’d)(mem. op., not designated for publication).

We overrule the State’s second sub-issue.

CONCLUSION

We conclude the trial court did not abuse her discretion in determining there were no 

exigent circumstances that justified a warrantless blood draw from Munoz. We affirm the trial 

court’s order granting the motion to suppress.

July 31, 2015

YVONNE T. RODRIGUEZ, Justice

Before McClure, C.J., Rivera, and Rodriguez, JJ.

Rivera, J., Not Participating

(Publish)