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STATE v. EDGERTON

No. 433PA87.

401 S.E.2d 351 (1991)

328 N.C. 319

STATE of North Carolina v. Larry Spencer EDGERTON.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

March 7, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen. by Joan H. Byers, Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State, appellant.

D. Bernard Alston, Henderson, for defendant-appellee.

WEBB, Justice.

We reverse the Court of Appeals. The United States Supreme Court held in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966), that confessions which result from in custody interrogations initiated by police officers without proper warning as to constitutional rights must be excluded unless a defendant knowingly, voluntarily and understandingly waives his rights. In order to trigger the exclusionary...

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