Legal Opinion
Woods v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided March 12, 1991No. 6-90-073-CRPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BLEIL, Justice.
Weldon Woods appeals from a conviction of burglary of a vehicle. Primarily, he contends that the trial court erred in overruling his motion to suppress evidence produced by an illegal search and arrest, and that the evidence is insufficient to support his conviction. We find sufficient evidence to support the conviction, but conclude that evidence seized as a product of an illegal arrest should have been excluded. We therefore reverse and remand the case for trial.
On the night of February 18, 1989, Highland Park police placed a radar detector inside a parked car. The…
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