United States Tenth Circuit

Grant of a motion to suppress evidence of two confessions to killing an individual in a prosecution for aforethought murder occurring within Indian country is affirmed where the district court did not err in concluding that defendant's confessions were the product of police coercion and, thus, involuntary.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/22/2006
• Published 02/22/2006

Judges

• EBEL, Circuit Judge., Before TACHA, Chief Judge, McKAY, and EBEL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James C. Murphy, Assistant United States Attorney (John W. Suthers, United States Attorney, Robert Kennedy and Suneeta Hazra, Assistant United States Attorneys, with him on the briefs), Denver, CO, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• William Herringer, Durango, CO, for Defendant-Appellee.