Legal Opinion
State v. Devlin
Montana Supreme Court
Decided April 28, 1999No. 98-143PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Turnage
¶ 1 In this DUI case, the Twenty-first Judicial District Court, Ravalli County, suppressed evidence of Michael James Devlin’s responses to an officer’s requests that he recite the alphabet and count in sequence. The State of Montana appeals. We reverse and remand for further proceedings consistent with this Opinion.
¶2 The issue is whether the District Court erred in granting Devlin’s motion to suppress evidence of his responses to the officer’s requests, made after Devlin was arrested for DUI but before he was advised of his Miranda rights, that he recite the alphabet starting with the letter…
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