Hamel v. State

In disposing of appellant’s grounds of error which challenge the admissibility of his oral statement and evidence seized pursuant to his consent to search, because of an illegal arrest, the majority concludes that the arrest and detention were proper.

In disposing of appellant’s contention concerning the admissibility of his oral statement, the majority uses a standard of review previously applied only to determining whether a statement or confession is admissible when given without benefit of a magistrate’s warning. To succeed on such a contention, the appellant has traditionally been held to…