Legal Opinion

Curtis Allen Kirkland v. State

Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont)

Decided April 10, 2013No. 09-12-00272-CRPublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

DAVID GAULTNEY, Justice.

A jury found Curtis Allen Kirkland guilty of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. Kirkland pleaded true to the enhancement allegations. He was sentenced to seventy years in prison. In two issues, Kirkland argues that the officers lacked reasonable suspicion to make a traffic stop, and that the State failed to establish the reliability of a testing device, a window-tint meter.

The trial court reasonably concluded that information provided to the detaining officers from a narcotics investigation was sufficient to justify the investigatory…

2Cases cited17 opinions

  1. Illinois v. GatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  2. Guzman v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
  3. Adams v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
  4. United States v. SokolowSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
  5. United States v. ArvizuSupreme Court of the United States · 2002

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Jose Salvador Aguilar v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2020
  2. Kirkland, Curtis AllenCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2015
  3. Melayna Diane Howard v. the State of Texas, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2024
  4. State v. Brandom Garrett, Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)2018
  5. Stewart, Androd KeonTexas Supreme Court · 2015

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