Legal Opinion
Mitten v. State
Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District
Decided June 13, 2002No. 13-00-303-CRPublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
NELDA V. RODRIGUEZ, Justice.
A jury found appellant, Cody Dewayne Mitten, guilty of capital murder, thereby implicitly rejecting his affirmative defense of insanity. The State did not elect to seek the death penalty, and the trial court assessed punishment at life imprisonment in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division. By four issues, Mitten complains of (1) the jury’s implicit finding that he was not insane at the time of the offense; (2) the trial court’s refusal to suppress his written statement; (3) the admission of an incriminating oral statement made…
2Cases cited38 opinions
- Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Johnson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2000
- Arizona v. FulminanteSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- Clewis v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1996
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Brossette v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)2003
- Reyna v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)2003
- Mitten v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 2004
- Mitten v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2005
- Carlos Lopez v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District2007
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