State v. Aiken

SEARS, Chief Justice.

We granted certiorari in this case to review the Court of Appeals’s holding that a statement that the appellee, Robert Aiken, a probation officer, gave as part of a criminal investigation into his conduct could not be used at trial against him. More specifically, the case concerns the appropriate test by which to determine whether an incriminating statement made by a government employee during an investigation into his conduct is coerced and inadmissible based on allegations by the employee that he was impliedly threatened with the loss of his job if he did not answer…