Legal Opinion

Harkins v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided August 29, 2008No. 2-06-412-CRPublishedCited by 28 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

BOB McCOY, Justice.

I. Introduction

In four points, Appellant Patricia Louise Harkins appeals her conviction for misdemeanor driving while intoxicated (DWI). We affirm.

II. Factual and Procedural History

On March 25, 2006, a concerned citizen called 911 to report Harkins’s erratic driving. Officer Kenneth Klein responded, administered several field sobriety tests to Harkins, and ultimately arrested her for DWI. On the night of her arrest, two chemical substances — carisoprodol, the generic name for the prescription drug Soma, and meprobamate, a metabolized byproduct of carisoprodol — were…

2Cases cited31 opinions

  1. Jackson v. VirginiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Almanza v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1985
  3. Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2000
  4. Malik v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
  5. Clayton v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2007

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3Cited by28 opinions

  1. Estrada v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)2009
  2. Crouse, Lawrence Frank v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 5th District (Dallas)2014
  3. Bernardi v. KleinDistrict Court, W.D. Wisconsin · 2010
  4. Cathy Brockhaus Paradoski v. StateCourt of Appeals of Texas · 2015
  5. Alexander Holland v. the State of Texas, Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)2021

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