Legal Opinion
Absalon, Ryland Shane
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided April 29, 2015No. PD-0340-14PublishedCited by 24 opinions
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2Opinion of the Court · MeyersMeyers, J.
in which KEASLER, HERVEY, ALCALA, RICHARDSON, and YE ARY, JJ., joined.
In 2012, Appellant was convicted of the murder of Ginger Hayden, which occurred in 1984. During Appellant’s trial, several people who had participated in substance-abuse treatment with him were permitted to testify that he had confessed to them that he had committed the murder. Appellant had filed a pretrial motion to suppress the testimony on the ground that, because his statements were made during the course of voluntary substance-abuse treatment, Article 38.101 of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure and Rule of…
3Cases cited8 opinions
- Guzman v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1997
- Puckett v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
- Romero v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1990
- State v. JohnstonCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2011
- Tamez v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1976
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4Cited by24 opinions
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