Marschall v. City of Carson

OPINION

By the Court,

Batjer, J.:

On January 12, 1966, two juveniles, who were brothers, were being questioned in the presence of their mother by George Wendell, a Carson City police officer, who is one of the respondents. Kenneth Wilson, another respondent, and at that time a Carson City patrolman, brought to Wendell’s attention an unsolved burglary at the Meek Lumber Company, which he had investigated on November 20, 1965.

Upon Wendell’s continued questioning the younger juvenile eventually admitted the lumber company burglary and implicated his brother, and a neighbor boy whose first name was…