Motions Related to Defendant's Statements

• Author: Robert K. Gill/Mark G. Daniel
• Pages: 233-258

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CHAPTER 6

motions Related to

defendant’s statements

I. Motions to Discover Defendant’s Statements

§6:01 Purpose of Motion

§6:02 Statutory Rules

§6:03 Written Statements

§6:04 Recorded Oral Statements

§6:05 Non-Recorded Oral Statements

II. Motions to Suppress Defendant’s Statements

A. General Points

§6:10 Purpose of Motion

§6:11 Statutory and Constitutional Rules

§6:12 General Principles

§6:13 Burdens of Proof

§6:14 Rules at Hearing on Motion to Suppress

§6:15 Grounds to Suppress Written Statement

§6:16 Grounds to Suppress Oral Statement

§6:17 Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law

§6:18 Agency Relationships

§6:18.1 Statements to Inmates

§6:18.2 Statements to Private Citizens

B. Juvenile Statements

§6:20 General Law

§6:21 Grounds to Suppress Juvenile Statement

Texas Criminal Forms 6-2

III. Motion in Limine

§6:30 Motion in Limine Evidence of Defendant’s Statement

IV. Forms

Form 6-1 Motion to Reduce Oral Statements to Writing

Form 6-2.1 Motion to Suppress Written Statement of Defendant

Form 6-2.2 Motion to Suppress Defendant’s Statement Due to Lack of Warnings

Form 6-3 Defendant’s Brief in Support of Motion to Suppress Written Confession

Form 6-4 Motion to Suppress Oral Statements of Defendant

Form 6-5 Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law on Admissibility of Defendant’s Recorded

Oral Statements

Form 6-6 Motion to Suppress Juvenile Statement

Form 6-7 State’s Notice of Intent to Offer Defendant’s Electronically Recorded Oral

Statement

Form 6-8 Motion in Limine (Evidence of Defendant’s Statement)

Form 6-9 Motion to Suppress Defendant’s Statement to Fellow Inmate

Form 6-10 Motion to Suppress Defendant’s Statement to Agent of State