No. 20-7174

Antonio Lopez v. Texas

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2021-02-17
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: coerced-confession confession-voluntariness criminal-procedure due-process family-coercion family-member interrogation police-interrogation probable-cause truthful-statements
Key Terms:
DueProcess CriminalProcedure Privacy
Latest Conference: 2021-03-19
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a threat to arrest, or a promise not to arrest, a member of a suspect's family, depending only on his willingness to confess to a crime, renders his ensuing confession involuntary

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW 1. Whether a threat to arrest, or a promise not to arrest, a member of a suspect’s family, depending only on his willingness to confess to a crime, renders his ensuing confession involuntary if he would not have confessed but for the threat or promise. 2. Whether the existence of probable cause to arrest Petitioner's wife for capital murder, if it existed, was sufficient to excuse threats to arrest and charge her with capital murder if Petitioner did not confess to it himself. 3. Whether truthful statements made to Petitioner by police detectives during their interrogation of him were sufficient to excuse threats to arrest and charge his wife with capital murder if he did not confess to it himself. i

Docket Entries

2021-03-22
Petition DENIED.
2021-02-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/19/2021.
2021-02-24
Waiver of right of respondent Texas to respond filed.
2021-01-27
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 19, 2021)

Attorneys

Antonio Lopez
Robin NorrisAttorney at Law, Petitioner
Robin NorrisAttorney at Law, Petitioner
State of Texas
Tom A. DarnoldEl Paso County District Attorney's Office, Respondent
Tom A. DarnoldEl Paso County District Attorney's Office, Respondent