State v. Fletcher

CASANUEVA, Chief Judge.

The State appeals the trial court’s order granting motions to suppress filed by defendants Dominick Lavdeah Fletcher and Rodney Lewis Lee. We reverse.

The defendants’ motions raised two grounds for suppression of their custodial statements to police. First, they claimed they received faulty Miranda 1 warnings because officers did not adequately inform them of their right to the presence of an attorney both before and during questioning. Second, the defendants claimed that their statements “were a product of deceit, coercion and duress, therefore involuntary and illegal.”…