State v. Slocum

The defendant was found guilty by a jury in district court of lewd and lascivious conduct with children. The issues raised by the appeal relate to the receipt into evidence of certain statements of the defendant in claimed vio lation of his constitutional rights, and to certain arguments to the jury made by the prosecutor in closing that are alleged to be inflammatory and prejudicial. The defendant seeks a new trial based on his claims of error.

The statements asserted to have been erroneously allowed to go before the jury were made on the occasion of the defendant’s arrest for the crime…