STATE v. SOTO

No. 4D06-1338.

954 So.2d 686 (2007)

STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Jayime SOTO, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

April 18, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Melanie Dale Surber, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Carey Haughwout, Public Defender, and Ian Seldin, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


FARMER, J.

The trial court has suppressed a very small part of what amounts to a confession given in an extensive interview preceded by Miranda warnings. The court found that a question by defendant near the end was in fact a request for counsel. We affirm.

Defendant had been arrested, taken to the police station and placed in an interview room. After he was addressed and given Miranda warnings in Spanish, one officer started an interview at...

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