Burke v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District (Waco)
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BILL VANCE, Justice.
A jury found Stephen Burke guilty of aggravated sexual assault and assessed punishment of thirty years’ incarceration and a $1,000 fíne. The same jury found Burke guilty of possession of child pornography and set his punishment for this offense at ten years’ incarceration and a $1,000 fine. We uphold the trial court’s denial of Burke’s motion to suppress evidence seized from his house under a search warrant because the probable-cause affidavit sufficiently supported the inference that he possessed illegal items at his house at the time the warrant was issued. We…
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