# Autran v. State

> Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · September 21, 1994 · 887 S.W.2d 31

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9678342

## Case

- **Full name:** Jimmy Alfonso AUTRAN, Appellant, v. the STATE of Texas, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
- **Decided:** September 21, 1994
- **Citations:** 887 S.W.2d 31; 1994 WL 511427
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Campbell
- **Judges:** Baird, Campbell, Clinton, McCormick, Meyers, White
- **Cited by:** 92 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Yellow flag:** Declined to follow by Michael D. Starnes v. State (2004).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9678342

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- recognizing that the purpose of an inventory search is to protect the arrestee’s property while the arrestee is in police custody and to protect the arresting officers from harm and against claims over lost property
- holding that article I, section 9 of the Texas *631 Constitution provides greater protection than its federal counterpart
- holding that article I, section 9 of the Texas Constitution provides greater protection than its federal counterpart
- holding that police cannot rely upon inventory exception to conduct search of closed container
- holding article I, section 9 provides greater protection than the Fourth Amendment in the context of inventory searches

## Opinion text

CAMPBELL, J.,
concurs in the judgment only believing the instant inventory violated the Fourth Amendment and that the judgments of the trial court and the Court of Appeals should be reversed on that basis.

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