State v. Arriaga-Luna

Justice DURHAM,

opinion of the Court:

INTRODUCTION

T1 The State appeals the district court's grant of defendant Delfino Arriaga-Luna's motion to suppress his confession to murder. The district court held that this confession was coerced because of the interrogating officers' "invocation of Mr. Arriaga-Luna's children as a method to get a confession." We reverse.

BACKGROUND

T2 On April 5, 2010, a female vietim was found deceased in her apartment. She had two gunshot wounds to the head. As officers were investigating, Mr. Arriaga-Luna's wife arrived at the scene with the victim's boyfriend and told…