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Criminal Procedure keyed to Weinreb
Brown v. Texas
Facts
Two police officers observed the Appellant and another man walking in opposite directions from one another in an alley. The officers believed the two men had met or were going to meet, but for seeing the police car the officers were riding in. One of the police officers asked the Appellant to (i) identify himself and (ii) what he was doing there. The officer testified that the Appellant “looked suspicious and we had never seen that subject in that area before.” The area where the stop was made has a high incidence of drug traffic. The officers did not “claim to suspect appellant of any specific misconduct, nor did they have any reason to believe that he was armed.” The Appellant refused to identify himself and objected to the fact that he was stopped. One of the officers replied that the Appellant was in a high drug area. The officer then “frisked” the Appellant and did not find any contraband. The Appellant continued to refuse to identify himself and was arrested for violating “Tex. Penal Code Ann., Tit. 8, 38.02 (a) (1974), which makes it a criminal act for a person to refuse to give his name and address to an officer ‘who has lawfully stopped him and requested the information.’ ” The Appellant was convicted in Municipal Court and fined and ordered to pay court costs. Thereafter, he exercised his right to have a trial de novo in the El Paso County Court. The court convicted the Appellant of violating the statute.
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