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Rodriguez v. State

Citations

  • 578 S.W.2d 419
  • 1979 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1335

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that if a temporary detention was illegal, any subsequent attempted arrest would be unlawful for purposes of the evading arrest statute
  • finding evidence insufficient to find a lawful arrest where officer lacked reasonable suspicion to detain suspect
  • finding evidence insufficient to find a lawful arrest where officer lacked reasonable suspicion to detain suspect
  • listing the elements of evading arrest including that “the attempted arrest is lawful”
  • listing the elements of evading arrest, including that “the attempted arrest is lawful”
  • unreasonable to stop pedestrian “solely because he looks 24 over his shoulder in the direction of a police car”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Douglas, Roberts, Odom

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