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<CENTER>NO. 03-9<A NAME="1">9</A>-00<A NAME="2">467</A>-CR</CENTER>


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<CENTER><A NAME="3">The State of Texas</A>, Appellant</CENTER>


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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times Regular"><STRONG><CENTER>Roselyn Arnette, Appellee</CENTER>
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<SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times Regular" STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><STRONG><CENTER>FROM THE COUNTY COURT AT LAW NO. 6 OF <A NAME="4">TRAVIS</A> COUNTY<A NAME="5"></A></CENTER>
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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times Regular" STYLE="font-size: 11pt"><STRONG><CENTER>NO. <A NAME="6">522,759</A>, HONORABLE <A NAME="7">JAN BRELAND</A>, JUDGE PRESIDING</STRONG></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times Regular"><STRONG></CENTER>
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The State appeals from an order granting Roselyn Arnette's motion to suppress
statements she made to a police officer who stopped her car for observed traffic offenses, and who
subsequently arrested her for driving while intoxicated.  <SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times Regular"><EM>See</EM> Tex. Code Crim. Proc. Ann. art.
44.01(a)(5) (West Supp. 2000).  The issue presented is whether Arnette's statements to the officer
were the product of custodial interrogation.  </SPAN>

<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times Regular">This Court recently held, on substantially identical facts, that a person stopped for
a traffic offense is not in custody and her volunteered statements are not the product of custodial
interrogation.  <EM>State v. Waldrop</EM>, 7 S.W.3d 836, 839-40 (Tex. App.--Austin 1999, no pet.) (citing
<EM>Berkemer v. McCarty</EM>, 468 U.S. 422 (1984); <EM>State v. Stevenson</EM>, 958 S.W.2d 824 (Tex. Crim.
App. 1997)).  Arnette has not filed a brief, but has filed a motion to dismiss the appeal as moot
stipulating to the admissibility of the suppressed evidence.  The motion is dismissed.</SPAN></P>

<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times Regular">For the reasons stated in <EM>Waldrop</EM>, the order granting Arnette's motion to suppress
is reversed and the cause is remanded to the county court at law.</SPAN></P>

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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times Regular">	Bea Ann Smith, Justice</SPAN></P>

<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times Regular">Before Justices B. A. Smith, Yeakel and Dally<STRONG><SUP>*</SUP></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times Regular"><SUP></SUP></SPAN></P>

<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times Regular">Reversed and Remanded</SPAN></P>

<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times Regular">Filed:   March 2, 2000</SPAN></P>

<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times Regular">Do Not Publish</SPAN></P>

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<P><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times"></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times"><STRONG><SUP>*</SUP></STRONG></SPAN><SPAN STYLE="font-family: CG Times"><SUP></SUP>	Before Carl E. F. Dally, Judge (retired), Court of Criminal Appeals, sitting by assignment. 
<EM>See</EM> Tex. Gov't Code Ann. §&nbsp;74.003(b) (West 1998).</SPAN></P>

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