Legal Opinion
State v. Briggs
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided July 17, 2000No. 99-145-C.APublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BOURCIER, Justice.
Chester R. Briggs stands indicted for the February 19, 1997, murder of Patricia Jacques. Following a pretrial hearing, a Superior Court trial justice granted Briggs’s motion to suppress statements made by Briggs when questioned by members of the Rhode Island State Police at the New Hampshire State Police Headquarters, and to suppress introduction at trial of evidence found in a trash bag seized from a dumpster on property Briggs owned in New Hampshire. The state appeals.
The defendant Briggs appeals from the denial of his motion to suppress certain other statements he…
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