Brown v. State

JAMES R. Cooper, Judge.

The appellant was convicted in a jury trial of committing permanent detention or restraint in violation of Arkansas Code Annotated § 5-11-106 (Repl. 1993). He was sentenced to seven years in the Arkansas Department of Correction. On appeal, he argues that the trial court violated Rules 401 and 403 of the Arkansas Rules of Evidence by admitting into evidence a statement in which he confessed to killing the victim; that the statement should have been suppressed because it was obtained after a pretextual arrest; that the statement should have been suppressed because it was…