Webb v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “The main thrust of appellant’s argument is that he should have been warned that the doctors would turn over the bullet to the police authorities. The evidence conclusively shows that this operation was not performed for the purpose of securing evidence for the police. We know of no rule of law which prohibits an individual from submitting to police officials objects which are lawfully in his possession, and the bullet was lawfully obtained from the appellant. We have, in the case at bar, no deception in regard to the reason for removal of the bullet, as was involved in Graves v. Beto, 424 F.2d 524 (5th Cir. 1970). We have been unable to find any cases in support of appellant’s contention.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Craft v. Commonwealth

2. “Appellant has totally failed to show that the surgeons were conducting an illegal search when they removed the bullet. They were simply performing a medical operation, for which they had obtained permission from the appellant. There was no unpermitted invasion of appellant’s body, such as was prohibited in Rochin v. California, 342 U.S. 165 , 72 S.Ct. 205 , 96 L.Ed. 183 ... or even in Apodaca v, State,... 146 S.W.2d 381 . These cases involved an unconsented to intrusion into the appellant’s body. Although some unpermitted intrusions into the body of the accused may be admissible into evidence, ... we need not rule on that issue in the case at bar.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cleveland Jerod Thomas v. State