Luis Narvez Martinez, Appellant v. the State of Texas

Summary

The Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas affirmed the lower appellate court's decision that the trial judge did not err in denying the motion to suppress appellant's written confession, finding the confession voluntary and admissible. The majority held that no positive promise was made by police and that the truth or falsity of the confession is irrelevant to the voluntariness analysis; a dissent argued that any promise inducing a confession should render it inadmissible and proposed a new test.