Lonnie Paul Miller v. the State of Texas

How courts have described this case

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• holding the defendant free from official restraint, because he was not observed at all times after crossing the border
• noting that even if a “proposed instruction is an accurate statement of the law” the district court may properly refuse to give it if it is “inapplicable to th[e] case”
• noting that even if a “proposed instruction is an accurate statement of the law” the district court may properly refuse to give it if it is “inapplicable to th[e] case”
• finding sufficient evidence of freedom from restraint where agent first “saw [defendant] running northbound . . . approximately 100–150 yards inside the United States”
• 'In considering whether the exclusion of evidence violates due process, this court considers [its] probative value . . . .' (internal quotation marµ omitted)
• aliens “who evade government observation while crossing the border are deemed to be free from official restraint, regardless of the distance they travel between entry and arrest”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).