Opinion ID: 1465695
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: officer koenig's testimony

Text: Aside from consideration of the citation, Officer Koenig testified that when he entered the parking lot, he observed the suspect vehicle and suspect, and confirmed my information from the informant. The citizen giving the information had flagged him down on the street near the site and informed him of the drug deal to go down in the parking lot. Just prior to this confirmation testimony, the officer's questions and answers were: Q: Is that all the information that you received? A: I received that they would be in the parking lot of 191 Outer loop selling to an unknown subject out of that vehicle. Q: Did they give you a time or did they say that they were there right now? A: That they were there as we spoke. In his answer to the very next question, he testified and confirmed my information from the informant. [W]e hasten to point out that a reviewing court should take care both to review findings of historical fact only for clear error and to give due weight to inferences drawn from those facts by resident judges and local law enforcement officers just. Ornelas at 699, 116 S.Ct. at 1663. Preliminary questions of fact are to be determined by the trial judge, whose factual findings are conclusive where supported by substantial evidence. Talbott at 82. Were we disposed to hold, as did the Court of Appeals, that Officer Koenig's observation of Priddy leaving the location after meeting with another subject, was in fact necessary to meet the predictive behavior test required for reliance on a citizen's tip  it is our opinion there was testimony of such properly before the court. It was there for proper consideration from (1) the citation perused and authenticated by the Appellee's counsel in examination at the hearing and available to the court from its own record and (2) through fair inference, Officer Koenig testified to this fact when, having already recited the fact of this observation as given to him from the informant, he testified he confirmed my information from the informant.