State v. Stephens

HUSKINS, Justice.

Defendant challenges the trial court’s refusal to suppress certain incriminating statements defendant made immediately following a polygraph test administered to him by SBI Agent Steve Davenport. Admission of the statements constitutes defendant’s fifteenth and sixteenth assignments of error. We first ascertain the factual basis for these assignments.

The record reveals that defendant and his attorney, William Heafner, were present in the SBI Office in Raleigh on 10 November 1976. Defendant said he was there “to take the polygraph examination.” The SBI agent advised him of the…