United States Fifth Circuit

The suppression of a statement defendant made to police after her arrest is reversed where the district judge erred by finding that police coerced her statement.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/23/2005
• Published 05/23/2005

Judges

• JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:, Before DAVIS, SMITH and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paula Camille Offenhauser and James Lee Turner, Asst. U.S. Attys., Peter Rodney Mason (argued), Houston, TX, for U.S., Marjorie A. Meyers, Fed. Pub. Def. (argued), Kyle Blair Welch, Houston, TX, for Cardenas.