Sweeten v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION ON STATE’S MOTION FOR REHEARING
TEAGUE, Judge.
On original submission, after finding from the facts that the confession of Charles Edmond Sweeten, appellant, was the product of an illegal arrest and detention, and also finding that the prosecution failed to establish sufficient intervening circumstances or events that might have purged the primary taint, this Court held that the trial court committed reversible error when it admitted into evidence the illegally obtained confession. See Sweeten v. State, 667 S.W.2d 779, 780 (Tex.Cr.App.1984)
For purposes of this opinion, we adopt the…
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