STATE v. MIDDLETON

No.85-0030-CR.

135 Wis.2d 297 (1986)

399 N.W.2d 917

STATE of Wisconsin, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Douglas Arthur MIDDLETON, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Wisconsin.

Decided November 20, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the defendant-appellant the cause was submitted on the briefs of Ruth S. Downs, assistant state public defender.

For the plaintiff-respondent the cause was submitted on the briefs of Bronson C. La Follette, attorney general, and Mary Batt, assistant attorney general.

Before Gartzke, P.J., Dykman, J., and Eich, J.


GARTZKE, P.J.

Douglas Middleton appeals from a judgment convicting him of first-degree murder, arson, and armed robbery, secs. 940.01, 943.02 and 943.32(2), Stats. Middleton argues that the trial court should have suppressed his post-arrest oral and written confessions that he killed Hilda Miller. He asserts that his statements were inadmissible because (1) he gave the statements during interrogation after he invoked his right to counsel, (2) before questioning him...

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