State v. Dickson

From the Hall County District Court’s order sustaining the defendant’s motion to suppress, the State brings an interlocutory appeal, pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. § 29-116 (Reissue 1985), before a single judge of this court. Dickson argued successfully to the district court that certain statements he had made to individuals, both police and civilians, were inadmissible because they were involuntary. The district court found that the State had “failed to prove by a pre ponderance of the evidence, that Def’s statements were a product of a rational intellect.” The court made no other findings of…