State v. Blackmon

OPINION OF THE COURT

ALFONSO C. SEPE, Circuit Judge.

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO SUPPRESS CONFESSION

THIS CAUSE having come before the Court on defendant’s motion to suppress his confession to police, and the Court having heard extensive testimony, having considered argument of counsel, and being otherwise fully advised in the premises, hereby makes the following findings of fact and conclusions of law.

*108The defendant is a fourteen year old black male juvenile who had completed elementary school and had begun the seventh grade at the time of his arrest for the capital offense of first degree murder.…