Carlos Enrique Casas v. State

OPINION

LEE GABRIEL, JUSTICE

Appellant Carlos Enrique Casas appeals from his conviction for driving while intoxicated. In two points, he challenges the denial of his pretrial motion to suppress and the imposition of a statutorily mandated court cost in the subsequent community-supervision order. We conclude that the trial court’s pretrial denial was not void based on an alleged bias. But we are constrained to hold, based on binding precedent, that the challenged court cost is facially unconstitutional, and we modify the trial court’s community-supervision order to delete that amount.

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