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- Title: James V. State
- Author : Texas Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 09, 2003
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
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Appellant Tarita James was convicted and given two life sentences by a jury for possession of cocaine over 400 grams and possession of methamphetamine over 400 grams. Appealing both convictions, James contends in her first two points that the trial court abused its discretion in denying her motions to suppress evidence seized after her vehicle was stopped because there was no reasonable suspicion for the stop. By her third point, James contends that there was no reasonable basis for continued detention and search after the purpose of the original stop was effectuated. By her fourth point, James complains that the trial court erred in overruling her motion to suppress an oral statement. In point five, she maintains that the trial court erred in excluding co-defendant Patrice Murphy's statement against penal interest. Point six complains that the trial court erred in allowing the State to impeach James with evidence of a prior conviction for which she satisfactorily completed probation. In points seven and eight, James urges that the prosecutor's misconduct throughout the trial and in closing argument denied her a fair trial. In James's ninth point, she argues that the trial court erred by preventing the venire panel from answering proper voir dire questions. We reverse and remand this case for a new trial.