Court Opinion

ID: 9779337
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 21:47:31.754626+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:33:25.426657
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MILLER, Judge,
dissenting.
I dissent for the reasons given in my dissent to Kelley v. State, 677 S.W.2d 34, (Tex.Cr.App. No. 63,869 delivered this day). Although this ease involves entry into a locked glove compartment instead of a locked trunk, the principle is the same. As pointed out in my dissent in Kelley, supra, the United States Supreme Court has never sanctioned keyed entry into a locked glove compartment under the guise of the inventory search doctrine. In fact they have pointed out, in every inventory search case they have written on involving an automobile glove compartment, that the glove compartment “inventoried” by police was unlocked. I dissent.
CLINTON, J., joins.