State v. Tucker

HORTON, J.,

retired, specially assigned under RSA 490:8. The defendant, Paul Tucker, was convicted of bribery, see RSA 640:2 (1996), after the Superior Court (Mohl, J.) denied the defendant’s *724motion to suppress a custodial statement. The issue on appeal is whether a custodial statement, made during questioning without the benefit of Miranda warnings, offering a bribe to a police officer is admissible to support a bribery conviction. We affirm.

The following facts were adduced at the suppression hearing. The defendant, with a blood alcohol level of .30, was taken into protective custody after…