Dixon v. State

OPINION

Appellant was charged with possession of cocaine. The trial court denied his pretrial motion to suppress, which claimed that the arresting officer had no probable cause to detain him and conduct a war-rantless search of his car a search that led to the discovery of cocaine inside a film cannister on the console of the car. Appellant then pled guilty, and the trial court, finding an enhancement paragraph true, sentenced him to twenty years in prison.

The court of appeals affirmed the trial court’s ruling, holding that, under “the totality of the circumstances” approach set out in…