Blankenship v. State

McNEILLY, Justice:

Defendant, Wade W. Blankenship, Jr., appeals his conviction by a Superior Court jury of First Degree Rape and First Degree Burglary. Four arguments are advanced by defendant for reversal of his convictions.

I

Initially, defendant contends that his confession was illegally obtained and erroneously admitted into evidence below because it was the product of an unconstitutional detention and coercion by the police and because the police failed to give him his Miranda warnings. Thus, we scrutinize the police conduct on which defendant bases his contention.

Detectives Brown and Cox…