Fromm v. State

ON MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION

WILNER, Chief Judge.

The principal issue in this appeal is whether the trial court erred by denying appellant’s motion to suppress inculpatory statements. Appellant argues that he was illegally detained by police officers when they arrived at his apartment building to execute a search warrant and that his subsequently obtained statements were therefore tainted. The illegality of the detention, he asserts, arises from the fact that he was not in his apartment when the officers seized him, but was walking out of the building next door, headed toward a parking lot.

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