Henry Earl Dunn, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee

Summary

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed appellant Henry Earl Dunn's capital murder conviction and death sentence, rejecting his claims that evidence obtained from an arrest on an unsigned warrant and his videotaped confession should be suppressed, that the State failed to prove the victim's identity, that the court failed to advise the competency expert, and that jury instructions violated his constitutional rights. The court applied Texas Code of Criminal Procedure's good‑faith exception and found the confession voluntary and sufficiently attenuated from any alleged illegal arrest. A concurring opinion agreed with the disposition of the first two points and provided additional discussion of the good‑faith and attenuation analyses. The judgment of the trial court was affirmed.