STATE v. FRANCIS

No. 88-198.

533 So.2d 320 (1988)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Arnold James FRANCIS, a/k/a Gidge Chinawith, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

November 10, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Brian Bayly, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellant.

Sam Baxter Bardwell, Titusville, for appellee.


EVANS, VERNON W., Jr., Associate Judge.

This review is from an order suppressing a confession. The defendant had been charged by way of Grand Jury indictment in Florida several years before his apprehension and interrogation by authorities in Yarmouth, Maine. The interrogation and resulting confession in Maine was preceded by appropriate Miranda warnings. The lower court held that a simple Miranda warning was insufficient to apprise the defendant of...

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