STATE v. MOON

No. S08A1798.

673 S.E.2d 255 (2009)

The STATE v. MOON.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

February 23, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Murder. Madison Superior Court. Before Judge Bryant, Senior Judge.

Thurbert E. Baker, Atty. Gen., Robert W. Lavender, Dist. Atty., for Appellant.

James Wilson Smith, Athens, for Appellee.


HINES, Justice.

The State appeals the suppression of defendant Jason Jerome Moon's jailhouse statement. Following a Jackson v. Denno1 hearing, the trial court suppressed the statement after determining that there was a violation of Moon's Fifth Amendment right to remain silent, and alternatively, that the statement was involuntary as the result of the hope of benefit. Finding that Moon did invoke his right to remain silent during...

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