W.M. v. State

We affirm appellant’s conviction and reject his contention that the trial court erred as a matter of law in denying a motion to suppress the statement appellant gave to the police.

We have some difficulty with the proposition that a 10-year old child could ever understand, in the sense that a mature adult could, the consequences of waiving his constitutional rights to silence and counsel, and of giving a statement about the crimes charged against him. However, we do not believe that we are free under the legal standards of review to substitute our own conclusions for those of the trial court,…