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State v. Alderete

Citations

  • 314 S.W.3d 469
  • 2010 WL 1634580

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that officers had reasonable suspicion that defendant was driving while intoxicated where officers had training and experience in investigating DWI offenses and defendant was observed continuously weaving within her lane for half mile in early morning hours
  • holding that the 11 trial court committed error when it failed to consider whether reasonable suspicion to stop a driver for DWI existed, and when it only considered whether reasonable suspicion to stop the driver for traffic violations existed
  • finding 10 that officers were justified in stopping a driver on suspicion of DWI when the driver was weaving within her own lane late at night
  • “[T]here is no requirement that a traffic regulation must be violated in order for an officer to have sufficient reasonable suspicion to justify a stop of a vehicle.”
  • trained police officers had reasonable suspicion to stop driver after seeing her swerve within her lane for half a mile on the interstate highway at 3:00 a.m. even though driver did not violate specific traffic regulation

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Judges: McClure, Rivera, Guaderrama

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37 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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