[DOWNLOAD] "Mount v. State" by Virginia Supreme Court * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Mount v. State
- Author : Virginia Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 15, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
Description
On Saint Patricks Day 2005, Houston Police Officer Kenneth Dagnault received a police dispatch regarding a possible vehicle theft near 5177 Richmond, involving a white Cadillac pickup truck. A few minutes later, Officer Dagnault saw what he described as "a tan or goldish colored or silver, light colored Cadillac pickup truck" being driven about a half of a block from that location. He followed the vehicle and initiated a "felony stop." The driver of the Cadillac truck, later identified as appellant, pulled the vehicle into a parking lot and stopped. Officer Dagnault, with back-up officers, approached the vehicle with guns drawn. The officers accompanying Officer Dagnault opened the doors of the vehicle and asked that appellant and his companion exit the vehicle. Both men were patted down for weapons, while Officer Dagnault checked appellants drivers license and the registration of the vehicle. Further investigation revealed that the vehicle was registered to appellants wife and, in fact, was not stolen. However, during this investigation, Officer Dagnault detected a strong odor of alcohol on appellant and noticed that appellants eyes were red, glassy, and bloodshot. Thus, although the investigation eliminated appellant as a suspect in the unauthorized use of the motor vehicle he was driving, as a result of the stop, appellant fell under suspicion for driving while intoxicated ("DWI").