Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

A decision upholding a denial of a motion to suppress and a conviction for murder is reversed and remanded for a harm analysis where: 1) because police officers did not scrupulously honor defendant's invocation of his right to remain silent, his subsequent written statement was inadmissible at his trial; and 2) consequently, the trial court abused its discretion in denying the motion to suppress and in admitting his written statement in evidence at his trial, and the court of appeals erred in holding otherwise.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/06/2008
• Published 02/06/2008

Judges

• HOLCOMB, J., delivered the opinion of the Court in which KELLER, P.J., and PRICE, WOMACK, JOHNSON, KEASLER, HERVEY, and COCHRAN, JJ., join.

Court

• Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jay Brandon, San Antonio, for Appellant., Mary Beth Welsh, Asst. Criminal District Atty., San Antonio, Jeffrey L. Van Horn, State's Atty., Austin, for State.