U.S. v. GREEN

No. 91-29.

592 A.2d 985 (1991)

UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Lowell GREEN, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 31, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy W. McLeese, III, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and John R. Fisher and Lisa A. Prager, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Joseph R. Conte, Washington, D.C., for appellee.

James Klein and Page Kennedy, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., filed a brief amicus curiae.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, and STEADMAN and FARRELL, Associate Judges.


FARRELL, Associate Judge:

The government appeals from an order suppressing the confession of appellee (hereafter defendant) in this murder prosecution. The trial judge ruled that the police, in eliciting the confession, violated the prophylactic rule of Edwards v. Arizona, 451 U.S. 477, 101 S.Ct. 1880, 68 L.Ed.2d 378 (1981), as further explained in Minnick v. Mississippi, ___ U.S. ___, 111 S.Ct. 486, 112 L.Ed.2d 489 (1990...

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