Court Opinion

ID: 9779025
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 21:33:47.954321+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:33:19.483906
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ONION, Presiding Judge,
concurring and dissening.
I agree that appellant’s oral confession was made after he was illegally arrested under the circumstances of this case. I dissent, however, to the overruling of Bain v. State, 677 S.W.2d 51 (Tex.Cr.App.1984), and Dodson v. State, 646 S.W.2d 177 (Tex. Cr.App.1980). I would distinguish those cases. I further dissent, however, to the remand to the Court of Appeals. We should apply Brown v. Illinois, 422 U.S. 590, 95 S.Ct. 2254, 45 L.Ed.2d 416 (1975); Self v. State, 709 S.W.2d 662 (Tex.Cr.App. 1986); Bell v. State, 724 S.W.2d 780 (Tex. Cr.App.1986), in this Court. What the majority does is not judicial economy. Once the Court of Appeals disposes of this piecemeal matter, it undoubtedly will be back before this Court. Such rotation of cases between courts does not add up to judicial common sense or contribute to the finality of judgments in criminal cases.
TEAGUE, J., joins this opinion.