State v. Harris

The sole issue on this appeal is whether the trial court erred in refusing to suppress oral statements elicited from the defendant in the course of a custodial interrogation. The defendant, Samuel Harris, was convicted, after a trial to a jury, of the offenses of criminal trespass in the second degree, 1 assault in the third degree, 2 and attempted sexual assault in the first degree. 3 Alleging that his oral statements to the police were procured in violation of the privilege against self-incrimination contained in the fifth amendment to the United States constitution, the defendant urges us…