State v. Mustapha Bojang

OPINION

Chief Justice SUTTELL, for the Court.

The defendant, Mustapha Bojang, appeals from his conviction of first-degree child molestation. In this appeal, we revisit the defendant’s argument that the statements he made after his arrest and during his interrogation at the Woonsocket Police Department should have been suppressed by the trial justice as the product of illegal coercion by the detectives who interrogated him. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the judgment of the Superior Court.

I

Facts and Procedural History

In State v. Bojang, 83 A.3d 526 (R.I.2014) (Bojang I), this Court…