HOLLY v. STATE

No. 94-842.

651 So.2d 707 (1995)

Billy Ray HOLLY, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied March 21, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Gibson, Public Defender, and Nancy Ryan, Asst. Public Defender, Daytona Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, and Robin Compton Jones, Asst. Atty. Gen., Daytona Beach, for appellee.


DAUKSCH, Judge.

This is an appeal from a conviction and sentence in an arson case. Appellant challenges the trial court's finding that his confession to the crime was not coerced and voluntary. While there is no question the police lied to this appellant, kept him under questioning for some four hours, with intermittent breaks, and promised, untruthfully, to help find the murderer of his father, the decision of the trial judge, under all the circumstances of this...

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