People v. Freeman

PIERCE, Judge.

Defendant, Russell Freeman, was originally tried and convicted in 1980 of four counts of murder in connection with the killing of two victims. That conviction was overturned by our Supreme Court in People v. Freeman, 668 P.2d 1371 (Colo.1983), because the court found that certain incriminating statements made to police during custodial interrogation were involuntary. On retrial, defendant was tried by jury and convicted of two counts of first degree murder after deliberation. We affirm.

I

Defendant’s first assignment of error concerns certain statements made by him at various…