Texas DWI defense often lives or dies at the suppression stage. When officers lack a lawful basis for the initial stop, everything downstream is fruit of the poisonous tree. A recent motion out of Travis County illustrates an underexplored suppression theory: that driving with an open trunk provides no legally cognizable basis for a Terry... Read more
Open Trunk, No Crime: Building a Regulatory Gap Argument to Attack a Traffic Stop in Texas
Texas DWI defense often lives or dies at the suppression stage. When officers lack a lawful basis for the initial stop, everything downstream is fruit of the poisonous tree. A recent motion out of Travis County illustrates an underexplored suppression theory: that driving with an open trunk provides no legally cognizable basis for a Terry... Read more
