Ex Parte Riley

OPINION

in which PRICE, JOHNSON, KEASLER, HERVEY, and HOLCOMB, JJ., joined.

Applicant was charged with possession of marihuana in an amount between five and fifty pounds. Applicant filed a pretrial motion to suppress, claiming that there was no reasonable basis for the officer to stop him and that the evidence was found during an invalid warrantless search. After a hearing, the trial court denied the motion to suppress. Applicant pleaded guilty to the offense and was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. He appealed, and the court of appeals affirmed the judgment of conviction. On May 1,…