Gibson v. State

CHARLES E. MOYLAN, Jr., Judge.

The appellant, Larry Gibson, was convicted by a Montgomery County jury, presided over by Judge James C. Chapin, of armed robbery and first-degree burglary. On this appeal, he raises the four contentions

1. that his allegedly Fourth Amendment-violative detention in an unrelated case two and one-half months before the crime in issue rendered the entire investigation in the present case excludable as the “fruit of the poisonous tree;”

2. that his confession was the involuntary product of impermissible promises and inducements;

3. that he was erroneously subjected to a…