Bowman v. the State

McFADDEN, Presiding Judge.

We granted this interlocutory appeal to determine whether the trial court erred in denying Denzell Bowman’s motion to suppress his recorded custodial statement. He argues that admission of the statement would violate his Sixth Amendment right to counsel. He waived his right to counsel during the interview that resulted in the statement, but he argues that the waiver was ineffective because law enforcement officers initiated the interview after Bowman’s right to counsel under the Sixth Amendment had attached. The authority he cites for that proposition has been…