State v. Cassell

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

We granted the state’s petition for review of the superior court’s ruling that a confession made by Daniel Cassell was unlawfully obtained and therefore inadmissible at Cassell’s trial.

Daniel Cassell’s adopted father, Air Force Colonel Robert Cassell, was bludgeoned to death in his Eagle River apartment on the night of August 14, 1978. After his body was discovered the following day, the Alaska State Troopers began an investigation, and, on the afternoon of August 15, 1978, Investigator Smith questioned Daniel Cas-sell as to any information he had concerning…