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· 1/26/2000

Carmouche v. State

Citations

  • 10 S.W.3d 323
  • 2000 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 8
  • 2000 WL 60020

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that consent to search was not free and voluntary when officer ordered suspect to “[t]urn around and put [his] hands on the car”
  • holding that an officer performing pat-down search may seize an object whose contour or mass makes its identity immediately apparent
  • concluding that an officer was justified in handcuffing suspect out of concern for his own safety
  • holding that a videotape of an arrest that contradicted officer's testimony at a suppression hearing was sufficient for trial court to discount the officer's testimony
  • holding that a videotape of an arrest that contradicted officer’s testimony at a suppression hearing was sufficient for trial court to discount the officer’s testimony
  • holding that the police officer must be able to ―point to specific and articulable facts, which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant the intrusion‖

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Judges: Meyers

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