CRUZ v. STATE

No. 97-04128.

736 So.2d 711 (1999)

Jessie CRUZ, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied July 9, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela H. Izakowitz, Tampa, for Appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee and Tonja R. Vickers, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellee.


CAMPBELL, Acting Chief Judge.

Appellant challenges his first degree murder conviction on the ground that the court should have suppressed his June 4 statement to officers. He argues that the officers did not scrupulously honor his invocation of the right to remain silent. Having concluded, however, that there was no such violation, we affirm.

On June 4, 1996, Appellant was arrested for the first degree murder of David Estrada. He was taken to the station house...

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