Herrera v. State

OPINION

WANDA McKEE FOWLER, Justice.

Appellant, Ruben Herrera, was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to an automatic life sentence. On appeal, he raises two points of error relating to a videotaped confession: (1) that it was inadmissible under Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Article 38.23; and (2) that it was inadmissible under the Fifth Amendment as applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Appellant’s claims are the same insofar as his basis for appeal is that police officers made promises of leniency and thus rendered the confession…