After trial defendant was convicted of assaulting his infant son. In three statements to the authorities, defendant explained that his four-year-old son was a wild child who needed discipline. The evidence showed that the defendant beat the child, who had awakened during the night and taken a drink from an old soda bottle. For several minutes defendant hit his son with a plastic bat.
Before trial defendant moved to suppress his statements. He advanced the narrow contention...
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