District Court of Appeal of Florida

An order granting defendant's motion to suppress statements she made to a law enforcement officer without the benefit of a Miranda warning is reversed where, in circumstances where defendant was inside a closed conference room with a detective at a Child Protection Team office when she made the statements, she was not in custody.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/07/2006
• Published 07/07/2006

Judges

• WALLACE, Judge.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Charles J. Crist, Jr., Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Susan D. Dunlevy, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and Cynthia J. Dodge, Assistant Public Defender, Bartow, for Appellee.