TDCAA    TDCAA Community  Hop To Forum Categories  Criminal    Probable Cause/ Double Jeopardy
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
Probable Cause/ Double Jeopardy Login/Join 
Member
posted
Does Double Jeopardy bar prosecution where a case was dismissed due to lack of pc to search. Then refiled and the court found a valid consent in a motion to suppress. I'm thinking no double jeopardy issue, but does anyone else know?
 
Posts: 18 | Location: Victoria, Texas, USA | Registered: November 23, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
Did the DA dismiss due to an administrative reivew of the first case, or did the Court suppress evidence on lack of PC to search?
 
Posts: 319 | Location: Midland, TX | Registered: January 09, 2002Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
I'm assuming that the case was dismissed before jeopardy attached. If so, you should be okay. It would need to be a collateral estoppel claim but even if your defendant had a finding that that there was no PC it does not sound like there was a finding that there was no consent.
This thread addressed a similar issue.
https://tdcaa.infopop.net/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=347098965&f=157098965&m=843102813&r=215101813#215101813

[This message was edited by D.Merritt on 04-20-05 at .]
 
Posts: 67 | Registered: February 26, 2005Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
The case was dismissed upon initial review of the prosecutor. There had been no hearing or motion to suppress.
 
Posts: 18 | Location: Victoria, Texas, USA | Registered: November 23, 2003Reply With QuoteReport This Post
Member
posted Hide Post
As stated in Hughes, 18 S.W.3d at 431: "The Code of Criminal Procedure provides that the State may dismiss a criminal action at any time as long as the judge presiding over the action consents to the dismissal. TEX.CODE CRIM. PROC. art. 32.02 (Vernon 1989). It is well settled that the dismissal of a cause does not prevent the grand jury from returning a subsequent indictment charging the same transaction." It makes no difference that the prosecutor may have mistakenly thought that certain evidence would be inadmissible.
 
Posts: 2393 | Registered: February 07, 2001Reply With QuoteReport This Post
  Powered by Social Strata  
 

TDCAA    TDCAA Community  Hop To Forum Categories  Criminal    Probable Cause/ Double Jeopardy

© TDCAA, 2001. All Rights Reserved.