Judgment reversed, on the law, and new trial ordered.
While the defendant bases his appeal on several grounds, the determinative issue is whether the trial court's refusal of a defense counsel request that it instruct the jury that, in determining the voluntariness of the defendant's confession to a police detective after receiving the Miranda warning, the jury must consider whether a prior confession to another police officer who had not given the defendant...
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