STATE v. HUDDLESTON

No. 02S01-9410-CC-00069.

924 S.W.2d 666 (1996)

STATE of Tennessee, Plaintiff/Appellee, v. Benjamin HUDDLESTON, Defendant/Appellant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

June 17, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tom Crider, District Public Defender, Twenty-Eighth Judicial District, Trenton, for Appellant.

Charles W. Burson, Attorney General and Reporter, Michael E. Moore, Solicitor General, Gordon W. Smith, Associate Solicitor General, Nashville, Clayburn Peeples, District Attorney General, Trenton, for Appellee.


OPINION

ANDERSON, Justice.

This case presents two issues for our determination: 1) whether the defendant's constitutional right to counsel was violated by police questioning that occurred three days after the defendant refused to sign a "waiver of rights" form; and 2) whether the violation of defendant's rights under either Tenn. R.Crim.P. 5(a) or the Fourth Amendment requires suppression of his confession given after he had been detained for more than seventy...

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