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Hawkins v. State

Citations

  • 758 S.W.2d 255
  • 57 U.S.L.W. 2262
  • 1988 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 169
  • 1988 WL 96775

How courts have described this case

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  • nothing is inherently suspicious about a person standing in a parking lot of a club at 8:30 p.m. or deciding not to be questioned
  • appellant in highcrime area ran from police; invalid investigatory detention because no evidence of criminal activity
  • general rule is that when police take possession of abandoned property, there is no seizure under Fourth Amendment
  • abandonment not voluntary if it follows defendant's unlawful detention

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Judges: Onion, White, McCormick

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