GRIFFIN v. STATE

No. 955-86.

765 S.W.2d 422 (1989)

Barbara Ann GRIFFIN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

February 8, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Read, Danny D. Burns, Grand Prairie, for appellant.

Henry Wade, Former Dist. Atty., John Vance, Dist. Atty., and Mary Jo Kain, Steven H. Miller, Marcus Busch and Pamela Sullivan Berdanier, Asst. Dist. Attys., Dallas, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.


OPINION ON STATE'S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

CLINTON, Judge.

Appellant, a sixteen year old juvenile at the time of the offense, was convicted as a party to murder. Her punishment was assessed by the jury at fifteen years in the Texas Department of Corrections. The Dallas Court of Appeals reversed her conviction, holding that her written confession had been involuntary, and hence its admission into evidence violated the Due Process Clause of the United...

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