Second Court of Appeals

Summaries of Civil Opinions and Published Criminal Opinions Issued - Week of December 24, 2018.

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State v. Opare, No. 02-18-00247-CR (Dec. 27, 2018) (Sudderth, C.J., joined by Meier and Kerr, JJ.) (op. on reh’g).

Held:  No evidence was admitted to support that the arresting officer had reasonable suspicion based on specific articulable facts to conduct a lawful temporary detention of Appellee, and neither the parties nor the trial court treated the dashcam video as admitted into evidence.  Accordingly, because there was no evidence to support a finding of reasonable suspicion, the trial court did not err by granting Appellee’s motion to suppress.