STATE v. NEEDHAM

No. C2-91-2506.

488 N.W.2d 294 (1992)

STATE of Minnesota, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Richard Gregory NEEDHAM, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

August 28, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., St. Paul, John Remington Graham, Crow Wing County Atty., and John J. Sausen, Asst. County Atty., Brainerd, for appellant.

John M. Stuart, State Public Defender and Cathryn Middlebrook, Asst. State Public Defender, Minneapolis, for respondent.

Considered and decided by the Court en banc without oral argument.


KEITH, Chief Justice.

The defendant is charged with arson. The issue on this pretrial state's appeal is whether the trial court was justified in suppressing defendant's confession pursuant to Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966). The trial court reasoned that suppression was required because the state, although eliciting testimony at the omnibus hearing that a "Miranda warning" was read...

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