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Dunn v. State

Citations

  • 951 S.W.2d 478
  • 1997 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 65
  • 1997 WL 573162

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the warrant had issued even without the magistrate’s signature for purposes of the good faith exception under code of criminal procedure article 38.23
  • concluding that exception applied in case where magistrate had failed to sign the warrant, as was required by statute, but record otherwise established that officers had acted in objective good faith
  • concluding that exception applied in case where warrant lacked magistrate’s signature
  • finding Article 38.23(b)’s good-faith exception was not automatically precluded when the magistrate inadvertently failed to sign the defendant’s arrest warrant
  • after warrant executed, officers realized warrant had not been signed by magistrate, even though magistrate meant to sign all 21 warrants
  • an appeal from denial of an instructed verdict challenges the legal sufficiency of the evidence to support a conviction

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Judges: Meyers, Mansfield

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