State v. Shaw

UDALL, Vice Chief Justice

(dissenting).

The majority have upheld the rulings and the conduct of the trial by the lower court in reference to all the assignments of error with the exception of the assignment which is addressed to the failure of the trial court to exclude evidence of an oral confession made by the defendant to the investigating officers. In that regard it is my opinion that the officers did not violate A.R.S. § 8-221 in obtaining the confession voluntarily made by the defendant.

I am in substantial agreement with the facts outlined in the majority opinion. However, I find that the…