Legal Opinion

Burke v. State

Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District (Waco)

Decided August 30, 2000No. 10-99-260-CR, 10-99-261-CRPublishedCited by 75 opinions

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…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Illinois v. GatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  3. Guzman v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
  4. Jones v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
  5. Lane v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1996

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3Cited by75 opinions

  1. Rogers v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2009
  2. Serrano v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2003
  3. Wilson v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)2002
  4. Quadreuy Flowers v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2014
  5. Morris v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 10th District (Waco)2001

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