Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Court of appeals' reversal of the trial court's denial of motion to suppress, in a conviction of defendant for cocaine related offense, concluding that a checkpoint that is used to determine if there are any ongoing criminal violations is too deep of an intrusion upon an individual's Fourth Amendment rights, is reversed as, a brief suspicionless stop at a checkpoint is constitutionally permissible if its primary purpose is to confirm drivers' licenses and registration and not general crime control, and here, the trial court implicitly found that the primary purpose of this checkpoint was a permissible license and insurance check.

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• Decided 01/12/2011
• Published 01/12/2011

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• Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

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