State v. Blackshere

This case involves a State’s appeal from a trial court’s orders suppressing evidence and terminating a prosecution.

In the District Court

The appellee was indicted in Brown County for possession of methamphetamine. More than two years passed. Four days before trial, a detective from the Brownwood Police Department discovered that the methamphetamine that the appellee was accused of possessing was missing from the Department’s evidence vault.

The appellee then filed a Motion to Suppress, arguing that evidence related to the methamphetamine should be suppressed because the State violated certain…