Court Opinion

ID: 9682329
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 08:09:31.491786+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:38.783819
License: Public Domain

BURGESS, Justice,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. The majority correctly holds that the stopping of appellant on the interstate was an arrest or “seizure”. The majority further holds that probable cause existed for the arrest. I disagree.
The majority admits the information received by the Beaumont Police Department came from a DEA agent. That agent received his information from an informant who received his information from a subin-formant. The reliability and credibility of the subinformant was unknown. The basis of the subinformant’s information was unknown. It was only the information of the subinformant that could, in any manner, create probable cause. I would hold that the facts in this case do not meet the requirements of Gates, supra, and Hennessy, supra. Appellant’s first ground of error should be sustained.