People v. Gennings

The People appeal from a ruling suppressing an inculpatory statement made by the defendant, Charles Earl Gennings, a Colorado Springs police officer, to a polygraph examiner following the administration of a polygraph examination, another statement made by him to a police department psychologist, and a third statement made by him to the district attorney’s investigator. The court suppressed the defendant’s post-polygraph statement as involuntarily made. The court suppressed the other two statements because, at the suppression hearing, the prosecution failed to establish the voluntary nature…