State v. Williams

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

The state appeals from the suppression of Williams’ tape-recorded and transcribed confession to the second-degree stabbing murder of Charles Leavy. The sole asserted basis for the ruling is that the police did not tell the defendant, and he was apparently not otherwise aware of the subject matter of their projected questioning when he formally executed the Miranda waiver form. Because Williams was fully informed in this regard by the time he actually gave the statement in question, we reverse.

The historical facts are not controverted. Two City of Miami homicide…