State v. Hickman

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A jury found Tony Curtis Hickman guilty of failing to register as a sex offender. Hickman appeals his conviction, asserting that under Missouri v. Seibert, 542 U.S. 600,124 S. Ct. 2601,159 L. Ed. 2d 643 (2004), the trial court erred by refusing to suppress his post-Miranda1 statements made to an interrogating officer because the officer failed to advise him that his preMiranda statements could not be used as evidence against him. Hickman also contends that the trial court erred by admitting his statements at trial because the State failed to first establish the corpus delicti by independent…