Legal Opinion
Maxwell v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided April 17, 2002No. 0359-01PublishedCited by 600 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JOHNSON, J.,
delivered the unanimous opinion of the Court.
Appellant was convicted of possession of marijuana and sentenced to 20 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-institutional division. On appeal, appellant challenged, among other issues, the validity of the consent to the search of the trailer which revealed a large quantity of marijuana. The court of appeals affirmed appellant’s conviction. We granted review on the validity of the consent to search.
Appellant owned and operated a tractor-trailer rig. On September 12, 1997, two officers in the narcotics division of the…
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