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State v. Copeland

Citations

  • 501 S.W.3d 610
  • 2016 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1195
  • 2016 WL 5952000

How courts have described this case

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

  • “She filed a motion to suppress, arguing that the length of her detention was impermissibly long and that, alternatively, the police did not have consent to search the vehicle.”
  • “In the first appeal, we held that Copeland could not deny consent for police to search the vehicle when the driver and registered owner of the vehicle did consent to the search.”
  • “In the first appeal, we held that Copeland could not deny consent for police to search the vehicle when the driver and registered owner of the vehicle did consent to the search.”
  • “The court may exclude relevant evidence if its probative value is substantially outweighed by a danger of . . . unfair prejudice, confusing the issues, [or] misleading the jury . . . .”
  • when reviewing trial court’s ruling on motion to suppress, appellate court upholds the ruling if it is correct under any theory of law applicable to the case, even if trial court did not rely on that theory in making its ruling
  • “When reviewing a trial court’s ruling on a motion to suppress, appellate courts uphold the ruling of the court if it is correct under any ‘theory of law applicable to the case,’ even if the trial court did not rely on that theory in making its ruling.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Alcala, Hervey, Johnson, Keasler, Keller, Meyers, Newell, Richardson, Yeary

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