Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Because Texas Family Code section 52.02(b) is not an independent exclusionary statute, the Court of Appeals erred in holding that juvenile defendant's written statement was automatically inadmissible because his parents were not notified when he was taken into custody, as there was no showing of a causal connection between the failure to notify the juvenile's parents and the juvenile's execution of a written statement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/13/2002
• Published 02/13/2002

Judges

Court

• Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael B. Charlton, Houston, for Appellant., William J. Delmore, III, Asst. DA, Houston, Matthew Paul, State's Atty., Austin, for State.