Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

986 S.W.2d 618

Dickerson v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided February 24, 1999

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · decided 1999-02-24

Relies on Dickerson v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1999-02-24

How this case has been cited

Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2015

8 state decisions

50199920002010decided

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

View the full empirical analysis of this case →

¶1OPINION

MANSFIELD, J.,

¶2delivered the opinion of the Court,

in which McCORMICK, P.J., and KELLER, PRICE, HOLLAND, WOMACK, and KEASLER, JJ., joined.

¶3Appellant, Nikalai Dickerson, pled nob contendere to the charge of driving while intoxicated, first offense. The trial court assessed appellant’s punishment at incarceration for forty days in the Harris County Jail. On appeal, appellant argued that the trial court had erred in denying his motion to suppress certain key evidence against him, to wit: the results of blood alcohol tests made on his blood at a hospital shortly after the conduct for which he was ultimately convicted. The First Court of Appeals rejected appellant’s argument. Dickerson v. State, 965 S.W.2d 30, 31 (Tex.App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 1998). We granted appellant’s petition for discretionary review to determine whether the Court of Appeals had erred. See Tex.R.App. Proc. 66.3(b).

¶4After reviewing the briefs of the parties and the relevant portions of the record, and after hearing oral argument, we conclude that our decision to grant appellant’s petition was improvident. Accordingly, we dismiss appellant’s petition. See Tex.R.App. Proc. 69.3.

JOHNSON, J. filed a dissenting opinion.MEYERS, J., dissented without a written opinion.
/986/sw2d/618 · .json · Public domain