Thorpe v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “Houston police narcotics officers received information from a confidential informant that the appellant was in possession of methamphetamine and that the appellant was going to make a delivery. Acting upon the information, the officers set up surveillance of an apartment building in Harris County. The officers saw the appellant drive up to the location with a woman later identified as Charlene Hatfield. The appellant left the car and walked to the passenger side where Hatfield handed him a brown pouch. One of the officers drove past the appellant and saw him place the pouch underneath his left arm and also noticed a shoulder holster containing a silver colored weapon. The officers watched the appellant and Hatfield enter an apartment on the second floor of the building. At trial, Hatfield testified the pouch belonged to the appellant and, while inside the apartment, the appellant offered to give another man a “shot” of the methamphetamine. As they left the apartment, the officers made their arrest. An officer testified that, during the arrest, they grabbed the appellant’s arms and removed his gun from its holster. The officers found the pouch inside a jacket that Hatfield was carrying. The testimony varied with respect to how the pouch returned to Hatfield’s possession. An officer testified that the appellant handed the pouch to Hatfield after they exited the apartment. Hatfield testified that the appellant placed the pouch in her jacket while in the apartment, without her kn”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thorpe v. State

2. “[W]hen adulterants and dilutants constitute a part of the weight utilized to increase punishment, the State must prove the following beyond a reasonable doubt: (1) the identity of the named illegal substance, (2) that the added remainder (adulterants and/or dilutants) has not affected the chemical activity of the named illegal substance, (3) that the remainder (adulterants and/or dilutants) was added to the named illegal substance with the intent to increase the bulk or quantity of the final product, (4) the weight of the illegal substance, including any adulterants and/or dilutants.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thorpe v. State