UNITED STATES v. SPRUILLE

No. 76-1660.

544 F.2d 303 (1976)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Lester Blaine SPRUILLE, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 26, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel K. Skinner, U. S. Atty., Thomas A. Mauet, Asst. U. S. Atty., Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Richard C. Moenning, Chicago, Ill., for defendant-appellee.

Before SPRECHER and WOOD, Circuit Judges, and WOLLENBERG, Senior District Judge.


HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

The Government brings this interlocutory appeal from the order of the district court allowing the defendant's motion to suppress certain statements made by the defendant to agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation prior to a transfer hearing under Title 18 U.S.C. § 5032.

The facts surrounding the statements in issue are not in dispute. The defendant, 17 years of age, was charged in a one count indictment returned...

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