Legal Opinion
Morris v. State
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided August 16, 2007No. 34A04-0611-CR-669PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BARNES, Judge.
Case Summary
Megan Morris appeals her convictions for Class A felony battery and Class A felony child neglect. We reverse.
Issue
The restated issue before us is whether the trial court properly admitted Morris’s statements to police into evidence.
Facts
On March 12, 2005, Kokomo Police Department officers were dispatched to the home of Morris and her fiancé, Kent McCarter, in response to a call about a child who had died while they were babysitting. There, they found eight-month old Romeo Randolph deceased. During the initial police investigation that night, Morris gave a…
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