Vanmeter v. State

OPINION

Opinion by Justice

SUE LAGARDE (Retired).

The issue we must decide in this appeal is whether the protections afforded by the Confrontation Clause, as recently interpreted in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36, 124 S.Ct. 1354, 158 L.Ed.2d 177 (2004), apply at pretrial suppression hearings. For reasons that follow, we conclude they do not. No reversible error having been shown, we affirm the trial court’s judgment.

After the trial court denied appellant Reginald Vanmeter’s pretrial motion to suppress, appellant waived a jury and en tered a negotiated guilty plea to the misdemeanor offense…