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Wilkerson v. State

Citations

  • 173 S.W.3d 521
  • 2005 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1619
  • 2005 WL 2443151

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  • holding that CPS worker was not “in tandem” with police officers when interviewing the defendant
  • holding that CPS worker was not \in tandem\ with police officers when interviewing the defendant
  • recognizing that under the holding in Miranda, “the State may not use any statements stemming from ‘custodial interrogation of the defendant’” absent the safeguards required by Miranda
  • recognizing that law enforcement ferrets out crime, investigates its commissions, arrests perpetrators, and gathers evidence for possible prosecution 10 109703 at (Tex. App.—El Paso 2010, pet. dism’d) (not designated for publication
  • concluding that a C.P.S. caseworker was not acting as State agent for purposes of custodial interrogation when the caseworker interviewed the defendant in jail to assess whether to remove a child from the defendant's home
  • holding CPS investigator .was not acting as law enforcement, noting CPS investigator’s purpose was to inform parents of emergency removal within statutory mandates

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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

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