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Garner v. State

Citations

  • 779 S.W.2d 498
  • 1989 Tex. App. LEXIS 2878
  • 1989 WL 140644

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that while a private citizen may not conduct an investigatory stop based only on an articulable suspicion, a citizen may effect an arrest or detention when he has probable cause to believe a crime is being committed
  • “a private citizen does not have the authority to make a Terry stop”
  • “[A] private citizen does not have the authority to make a Terry stop.”
  • \a private citizen does not have the authority to make a Terry stop\
  • private citizen does not have authority to make a Terry stop

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Judges: Hill, Lattimore, Meyers

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