STATE v. GIOVANNI

No. 64006.

375 So.2d 1360 (1979)

STATE of Louisiana v. Edward Lee GIOVANNI, Jr.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

October 8, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl A. Leckband, Jr., D. Michael Mooney, Lake Charles, for defendant-relator.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Leonard K. Knapp, Jr., Dist. Atty., Adam L. Ortego, Jr., Abbott J. Reeves, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-respondent.


CALOGERO, Justice.

We granted writs upon application of defendant, Edward Lee Giovanni, Jr. to review a pre-trial ruling of the district court denying his motion to suppress. In that motion defendant sought to suppress certain oral inculpatory statements made by him to deputies of the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office and to a Deputy Louisiana Fire Marshall on grounds that the statements were not freely and voluntarily given and were made while defendant was being...

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