{"id":64908,"date":"2026-09-30T10:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64908"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T16:40:29","slug":"tx14-rs-doesnt-even-require-an-identifiable-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=64908","title":{"rendered":"TX14: RS doesn&#8217;t even require an identifiable crime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Reasonable suspicion doesn\u2019t even require that the officer has to articulate what crime is happening or about to happen. <a href=\"https:\/\/search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=112053de-c643-4092-be8f-86e5611b357d&amp;coa=coa14&amp;DT=Judgment&amp;MediaID=c1f9f3e1-287c-4f84-b750-86d05a1922c8\">Williams v. State<\/a>, 2026 Tex. App. LEXIS 9076 (Tex. App. \u2013 Houston (14th Dist.) Sep. 29, 2026):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>With these standards in mind, the question here is whether the circumstances known to Officer Roye when he detained appellant provided a sufficient basis to suspect that unusual activity was related to criminal conduct that had occurred, was occurring, or was about to occur. They did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The defense&#8217;s argument rests on a premise that misinterprets the reasonable suspicion standard. Appellant emphasizes that Officer Roye did not know, at the moment of detention, that appellant had committed a DWI or any other particular offense. But reasonable suspicion does not require that. An officer need not possess evidence sufficient to establish that a crime actually occurred, much less evidence sufficient to prove the particular offense for which the defendant is later arrested. See Johnson, 622 S.W.3d at 384-85; Derichsweiler, 348 S.W.3d at 916-17. The officer need only possess specific, articulable facts that reasonably suggest that criminal activity is afoot. Derichsweiler, 348 S.W.3d at 914-17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The circumstances here satisfy that modest requirement. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reasonable suspicion doesn\u2019t even require that the officer has to articulate what crime is happening or about to happen. Williams v. State, 2026 Tex. App. LEXIS 9076 (Tex. App. \u2013 Houston (14th Dist.) Sep. 29, 2026):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64909,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64908\/revisions\/64909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}