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CARNEY v. STATE

No. A-10348.

249 P.3d 308 (2011)

Cress CARNEY, Appellant, v. STATE of Alaska, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Alaska.

March 4, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan S. Bair , Assistant Public Advocate, and Rachel Levitt , Public Advocate, Anchorage, for the Appellant.

W.H. Hawley , Assistant Attorney General, Anchorage, and Daniel S. Sullivan , Attorney General, Juneau, for the Appellee.

Before: COATS, Chief Judge, and MANNHEIMER and BOLGER, Judges.

OPINION

BOLGER, Judge.

Cress Carney confessed to murder during an interview with the Dillingham police. He now argues that the investigating officers coerced his confession when they promised not to arrest him and promised not to tell others about what he admitted. He points out that we have suppressed confessions that were induced by similar promises of immunity. But despite the coercive potential of the officers' promises, the record demonstrates...

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