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Rayford v. State

Citations

  • 125 S.W.3d 521
  • 2003 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 842
  • 2003 WL 22717646

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that neither failure to inform accused that he can refuse to consent nor failure to give Miranda warnings automatically renders consent involuntary
  • holding that Apprendi and Ring have no applicability to Code of Criminal Procedure Article 37.071, the capital murder sentencing statute, in its current form
  • holding that neither failure to inform accused that he can refuse to consent nor failure to give Miranda warnings automatically renders consent involuntary
  • holding that consent was voluntarily given when the subject had received only a tetanus shot and Motrin for a knee injury and there was no evidence that the pain rendered his actions involuntary
  • concluding that appellant’s consent to a blood test at the hospital was voluntary because there was no evidence that the atmosphere at the hospital was coercive or threatening at the time his consent was requested
  • recognizing consent was voluntary despite claims that defendant’s medical condition rendered it involuntary where no evidence existed that defendant was suffering pain

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Meyers, Keller, Price, Womack, Keasler, Hervey, Holcomb, Cochran, Johnson

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230 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

30 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

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