Alford, Cecil Edward

OPINION

Appellant, Cecil Edward Alford, challenges the court of appeals’s holding that the trial court properly admitted appellant’s xm-Mirandized 1 custodial statements made in response to “questioning attendant to an administrative ‘booking’ procedure.” Alford v. State, 338 S.W.3d 358, 361 (Tex.App.-Fort Worth, 2010) (mem. op.). We granted appellant’s petition for discretionary review to address his contentions that the court of appeals erred (1) by applying an abuse-of-discretion standard in reviewing the trial court’s ruling that the questioning did not offend Texas Code of Criminal…