Ex parte Wilhelm

MEMORANDUM OPINION1

RICHARDS, Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s decision denying pre-trial relief on a claim of collateral estoppel. Appellant’s specific complaint is that the trial court was required to grant the relief he requested in a pre-trial writ of habeas corpus; to wit: find that the State was collaterally estopped from relitigating the issue of the legality of the traffic stop which gave rise to appellant’s arrest for the offense of driving while intoxicated.

Appellant argues that because an administrative law judge earlier found that the traffic stop was…