Stewart v. State

George Rose Smith, Justice.

The appellant, Danny Stewart, was charged with having murdered Edna Jolly on March 7, 1984. He was found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. His principal argument for reversal is that his confession to the police was the product of an illegal arrest and should have been suppressed. The State responds that the arrest was proper because the police acted in good faith within the Supreme Court’s ruling in United States v. Leon, 104 S. Ct. 3405 (1984). We cannot uphold the conduct of the police or of the municipal judge with…