Timbers v. Commonwealth

ANNUNZIATA, Judge.

Kelly Yvette Timbers (appellant) was convicted of two counts of forgery. In this appeal, she challenges the trial court’s admission into evidence of statements she made to a deputy sheriff while she was incarcerated in a Madison County holding cell. She contends the statements were obtained in violation of Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966), and that the statements were the unlawful fruit of an earlier detention in violation of the Fourth Amendment. She also contends the evidence was insufficient to support her convictions for forgery. We…