State v. Tapply

The issue presented in this interlocutory appeal from a superior court ruling in a second-degree murder case is whether certain inculpatory statements made by the defendant in response to police questioning should be suppressed because they were obtained in violation of the defendant’s constitutional rights. We hold that the statements must be suppressed, and therefore reverse.

The defendant attacks the admission of the statements on the basis both of the Constitution of the United States and of the Constitution of this State. U.S. Const, amends. IV, V, VI; N.H. Const, pt. I, arts. 15 and 19.

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