State v. Barrow

MILLER, Justice:

The defendant, Gay Barrow, advances several grounds for reversal of his felony convictions of attempted murder of his wife and malicious wounding of an infant child and three misdemeanor convictions of brandishing a pistol, carrying an unlicensed weapon, and destruction of property. The defendant’s primary argument is that the circuit court should have suppressed the testimony of a State trooper concerning an incriminating oral statement he made because this statement had been obtained in violation of his Sixth Amendment right to counsel. We begin with a brief chronological…