STATE v. BURTON

S22A0684.

878 S.E.2d 515 (2022)

The STATE v. BURTON.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: September 20, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy Patrick Dean , A.D.A., Shalena Cook Jones , District Attorney, Eastern Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office, 133 Montgomery Street, Suite 600, Savannah, Georgia 31401, Paula Khristian Smith , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Patricia B. Attaway Burton, Deputy Attorney General, Christopher M. Carr , Attorney General, Department of Law, 40 Capitol Square, S.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30334, for Appellant.

Martin Gregory Hilliard , Martin G. Hilliard PC, 219 West York Street, Savannah, Georgia 31401, for Appellee.


The State appeals the trial court's suppression of custodial statements 16-year-old Jeffrey Burton made during a video-taped interview with law enforcement officers who had arrested Burton for the murder of George Akins, Jr. The State contends that the trial court erred in concluding that Burton clearly, unequivocally, and unambiguously...

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