Mills v. State

OPINION

BOB PEMBERTON, Justice.

During the late evening hours of July 2, 2007, Officer Alex Sherwood, then of the Lockhart Police Department, 1 initiated a traffic stop on Robert Paul Mills after, Sherwood testified, he witnessed Mills making a right turn after Mills had failed to signal within one-hundred feet of the intersection. See Tex. Transp. Code Ann. § 545.104(b) (West 1999) (“An operator intending to turn a vehicle right or left shall signal continuously for not less than the last 100 feet of movement of the vehicle before the turn”). The investigatory detention led to a succession of…