State v. Devigne

OPINION

WOOD, Judge.

The two appellate issues involve (1) defendant’s confession after a warrantless arrest, and (2) the length of defendant’s probation.

Albuquerque detectives, investigating a series of residential burglaries, acquired information that implicated defendant. Some two weeks after acquiring this information, the detectives arrested defendant in his residence, during daylight, without a warrant. Thereafter, defendant made two oral inculpatory statements and one written confession.

Defendant moved to suppress all of his statements. Among the grounds relied on were: (a) that he was…