Legal Opinion
Martinez v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)
Decided January 29, 2002No. 07-01-0194-CRPublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PHIL JOHNSON, Justice.
Appellant Joe L. Martinez appeals from his conviction for possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute. He urges that his detention by the police was illegal and the evidence discovered pursuant to his illegal detention should have been suppressed. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
For over one month before August 19, 2000, a drug task force of federal, city and county law enforcement officers had been maintaining intermittent surveillance of apartment 104 of the Fountains Apartments in Lubbock, Texas. Surveillance was maintained because the task force had…
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