Saucier v. State

ZEHMER, Judge.

Having been convicted of two counts of aggravated battery with a firearm and of shooting into a building, Willie Saucier, Jr., defendant below, raises as the sole point on appeal error by the trial court in permitting Deputy Sheriff Kahl to testify, during the state’s case on rebuttal, about certain incriminatory statements made by defendant when taken into custody and before being given the warnings required by Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966). In view of the lack of the requisite Miranda warnings, the state had previously declined to offer…