The issue is whether a murder confession must be suppressed when the police and the District Attorney investigating the murder were unaware that the defendant had absconded from the earlier trial of an unrelated criminal matter and still had counsel representing him on the unrelated matter.
The defendant, Wilfredo Cardona, is charged with the crime of murder in the second degree. He is accused of stabbing Nelson Perez and...
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