State v. Stevens

OPINION ON REMAND

WANDA McKEE FOWLER, Justice.

On remand from the Court of Criminal Appeals, we consider the State’s contention that, in an action to adjudicate guilt on a charge of involuntary manslaughter after appellee Cory A. Stevens was arrested for driving while intoxicated (“DWI”) in Tom Green County, the Brazoria County district court erred by granting Stevens’s motion to suppress evidence based on the application of collateral estoppel to an earlier ruling of the county court at law in Tom Green County granting Stevens’s motion to suppress evidence in the DWI prosecution. We hold that…