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Texas Court Cases
[Enrique Sanchez]
[Brown v. Texas]
Texas Case One
Texas Court Rules Drug Seizure at Roadblock Illegal
IN THE COURTS
July 1993
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled inadmissible 85 pounds of
marijuana seized at
a roadblock on grounds that the roadblock was illegal because the state
failed to show it was necessary or operated according to uniform standards
(AP, "Drug Seizure At Roadblock Is Ruled Illegal," Dallas Morning News,
6/24/93, 31A).
The June 23 decision reversed a lower appeals court ruling in the case
of Juan Enrique Sanchez, who was indicted April 30, 1987 after marijuana
was found in his car trunk at a Texas Department of Public Safety roadblock
in Victoria County. Sanchez's 10-year-old car looked suspicious, said
police, because it had a broken window and the license plate was secured
by wire. Sanchez filed a motion to suppress the evidence, saying the
police search was illegal.
Texas Case Two
see also the following Texas case
in the Federal section:
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