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Martinez v. State

Citations

  • 348 S.W.3d 919
  • 2011 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 912
  • 2011 WL 2555712

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that “any information known to the police dispatcher is imputed to the detaining officer”
  • stating that detaining officer must articulate specific facts that connect detainee to unusual activity
  • noting that when citizen informant provides self-identifying information, his degree of reliability “significantly improves”
  • observing that “the degree of reliability significantly improves” when informant provides self-identifying information
  • explaining that “[a]n inverse relationship exists between the reliability of -6- 04-13-00310-CR the informant and the amount of corroborated information required to justify the police intrusion; the less reliable the tip, the more information is needed.”
  • criticizing the court of appeals for making the “conclusory determination that the unusual activity was related to criminal activity by stating that the officer considered the call to be a report of theft”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Johnson, Meyers, Price, Womack, Keasler, Hervey, Cochran, Alcala, Keller

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