STATE v. LOWE

Docket No. Oxf-13-4.

81 A.3d 360 (2013)

2013 ME 92

STATE of Maine v. Kristina LOWE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: October 31, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman R. Croteau , District Attorney, and Joseph M. O'Connor and Richard R. Beauchesne , (orally), Asst. Dist. Attys., Office of District Attorney, South Paris, for appellant State of Maine.

James P. Howaniec, Esq. , (orally), Lewiston, for appellee Kristina I. Lowe.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, LEVY, SILVER, MEAD, GORMAN, and JABAR, JJ.


SAUFLEY, C.J.

[¶ 1] Eighteen-year-old Kristina Lowe lay in the hospital, sedated, frostbitten, immobilized, and severely injured when a Maine State Police trooper, without providing Miranda warnings, questioned her about the car accident that caused Lowe's injuries. After a pause in the questioning, during which the trooper received more information about the crash, the trooper told Lowe that two of her friends who had been in the backseat of the car were...

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