Garza v. State

OPINION

Opinion by:

KAREN ANGELINI, Justice.

Juan Cerda Garza pled nolo con-tendere to murdering his common-law wife and was sentenced to 35 years imprisonment pursuant to a plea bargain. The issue on appeal is whether the trial court erred in denying Garza’s motion to suppress his two written statements, which included a confession to the murder. 1 Garza maintains the statements resulted from a custodial interrogation and that he was not given Miranda warnings prior to making them. See Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966). The State acknowledges Garza never…