PIERCE v. STATE

No. 0301-00.

32 S.W.3d 247 (2000)

Cheryl Stringer PIERCE, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas. En Banc.

November 15, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melvin Carson Bruder, Dallas, for appellant.

John R. Rolater, Jr., Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, Matthew Paul, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.


WOMACK, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which McCORMICK, P.J., MEYERS, MANSFIELD, KELLER, PRICE, HOLLAND, and JOHNSON, JJ., joined.

Is a trial judge's ruling on an objection to illegally-obtained evidence rendered moot by a guilty verdict from a jury that was instructed to disregard illegally-obtained evidence? We hold that it is not.

This question arose in a prosecution for driving while intoxicated....

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