Cruz v. State

CAMPBELL, Acting Chief Judge.

Appellant challenges his first degree murder conviction on the ground that the court should have suppressed his June 4 statement to officers. He argues that the officers did not scrupulously honor his invocation of the right to remain silent. Having concluded, however, that there was no such violation, we affirm.

On June 4, 1996, Appellant was arrested for the first degree murder of David Estrada. He was taken to the station house where Detective Atkinson read him his Miranda rights. After Appellant signed the waiver form, Detective Atkinson attempted to interview…