Carl D. Pettyjohn v. United States

SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Circuit Judge

(concurring in the result):

I join my colleagues in affirmance of appellant’s conviction, but for reasons not entirely coinciding with those they express. Hence the occasion for this separate opinion.

Appellant does not contest the admissibility of his unsolicited utterances to Sergeant Brown made immediately upon his entry into the Twelfth Precinct stationhouse.1 Instead, the controversy rages over his beyond-the-threshold statements to Sergeant Crooke, which contained damaging admissions highly cogent to the deliberative and premeditative elements of…