State v. Triggs

¶ 1. The State of Wisconsin appeals from an order suppressing inculpatory statements the trial court held were not the voluntary product of a free and unconstrained will because the police misrepresented that there were several witnesses to the incident. Police misrepresentations during an interrogation do not make an otherwise voluntary statement inadmissible, but become one factor in the totality of the circumstances analysis that must be conducted in determining the voluntary nature of the statement. Since we conclude that under the totality of the circumstances the statement was…