State v. Abdulle

Alexander, J.*

¶1 We granted the State’s petition to review a decision of the Court of Appeals in which that court reversed Yussuf Abdulle’s first degree theft and forgery convictions based on State v. Davis, 73 Wn.2d 271, 438 P.2d 185 (1968). In Davis, this court held, at a hearing to determine the admissibility of a defendant’s statement, that if the defendant denies waiving his Miranda1 rights and the State fails, without explanation, to call other police officers who witnessed the interrogation in order to corroborate the waiver, the defendant’s custodial statements are inadmissible. The…