State v. Bell

Appellee was employed by Simon Management Associates as the property manager for the Galleria Shopping Mall in Houston. He was charged with unauthorized discharge of industrial waste after a pressure-washing contractor allegedly discharged contaminated water while cleaning the Galleria Mall’s underground parking garages. Appellee filed a motion to suppress evidence, which the trial judge granted after an evidentiary hearing.

According to the trial court’s factual findings, Sheree Moore, the owner of a pressure-washing company who worked with police on investigating competing pressure-washing…