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Walter v. State

Citations

  • 28 S.W.3d 538
  • 2000 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 84
  • 2000 WL 1348504

How courts have described this case

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

  • during a lawful traffic stop, an officer is permitted to detain the individual to check for outstanding warrants
  • failing to signal before making a turn is an objective basis for stop
  • pre-Caballes case noting that U.S. Supreme Court has not addressed whether canine sniff alone is a detention or whether calling in a canine unit requires reasonable suspicion, but assuming pr e-Caballes that reasonable suspicion was required
  • observation of actual violation of law is sufficient probable cause for traffic stop

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Keasler, Mecormick, Meyers, Mansfield, Keller, Price, Holland, Womack, Johnson

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

Cites

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Other cases named Walter v. State

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