Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Ignacio Hernandez, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee

January 7, 19981998 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 2

Summary

The Court of Criminal Appeals granted the appellant's petition for discretionary review on the ground that the Court of Appeals failed to conduct a de novo review of the voluntariness of his confessions, vacated the lower court's judgment, and remanded for reconsideration in light of Guzman. The appellant's first ground concerning the involuntariness of the confessions was dismissed without prejudice.