In an issue of first impression in Texas, the Court of Criminal Appeals joined two federal circuit courts that recently held that the Vienna Convention does not give foreign nationals arrested in the United States the right to suppress criminal evidence.
In Rocha v. State, a Mexican citizen argued that his confession to Houston police about his role in a 1994 shooting should be suppressed because the police did not notify him of his right to contact the Mexican consulate.
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