State v. Weaver

MeDEVTTT, Chief Justice.

I

BACKGROUND

The facts of this case, based on testimony at the suppression hearing, are as follows. The Weaver family came to the attention of the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department in the fall of 1992, when Appellant Walter Weaver’s brother, Bob Weaver, took his wife, Charlotte, hostage during a domestic dispute. Bob was killed during the standoff. A few days after that incident, Charlotte contacted Sergeant Kenneth Sopher (Sgt. Sopher) at the Sheriffs Department about information she had received from members of Bob’s family. They had informed Charlotte that Walter…