Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Defendant's conviction for murder is affirmed where he produced no evidence of a causal connection between the police violation of section 52.02(b) of the Texas Family Code and his ensuing confession.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/08/2005
• Published 06/08/2005

Judges

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

Court

• Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• G. Allen Goodling, Houston, for Appellant in PD-12-04., Carol M. Cameron, Assist. Dist. Atty., Houston, Matthew Paul, State's Atty., Austin, for the State., Michael B. Charlton, Alvin, for Appellant in PD-72-04.