Judge finds Joseph Krueger guilty of evading in motor vehicle; sentences 3 years suspended, 4 years probation

Judge Stephanie Boyd of the 187th District Court found Joseph Krueger guilty on an evading-an-officer-in-a-vehicle charge and imposed a three-year prison sentence suspended in favor of four years of community supervision, after the state presented dashcam footage and officer testimony and the defense agreed to proceed by bench trial.

The court took the case on the record after parties announced themselves as Andrew Harris Edelman for the State and Adam LaHood for the defense; Krueger waived his right to a jury trial and signed a written waiver that the court accepted. The state offered the patrol vehicle dashcam as State's Exhibit 1, which the defense did not object to; Officer Ramiro Ramos of the San Antonio Police Department identified the video and testified about the traffic stops that led to the evading charge.

The state's evidence, including the recording, showed the vehicle pull away from a location officers associate with narcotics distribution, fail to come to a complete stop at one stop sign according to Officer Ramos, and turn into an outer lane rather than the lane…