Legal Opinion
Smith v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)
Decided April 24, 1990No. 07-89-0090-CRPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REYNOLDS, Chief Justice.
A jury found appellant Robert Lee Smith guilty of the offense of aggravated possession of a controlled substance, and assessed his punishment at eighteen (18) years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections (now, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division). By eight points of error, appellant contends the trial court erred (1-3) by overruling his motion to suppress evidence because the initial stop was a pretextual stop motivated by use of a drug courier profile, consent to search was obtained before Miranda warnings had been given, and…
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