Legal Opinion

Maixner v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided June 22, 1988No. 045-84PublishedCited by 37 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION ON STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

McCORMICK, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of murder and sentenced to forty-five years’ confinement. The Beaumont Court of Appeals reversed appellant’s conviction in a published opinion and ordered the cause remanded for a new trial. Maixner v. State (No. 09-83-092Cr, delivered Nov. 30, 1983, Tex.App.Beaumont). The Court of Appeals found that because the arrest of appellant was unlawful the confessions he made thereafter were inadmissible at his trial. The State has petitioned this Court to review this holding. We reverse the Court of Appeals.

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2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  3. Brown v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
  4. Dunaway v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  5. United States v. WatsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1975

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3Cited by37 opinions

  1. Fuller v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1992
  2. Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1994
  3. Garcia v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)1999
  4. Guardiola v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)2000
  5. Weems v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)2005

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