United States v. Indian Boy X

WALTER E. HOFFMAN, District Judge:

The major issue before us is whether the juvenile appellant’s murder confession should have been suppressed due to noncompliance on the part of tribal police and Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) agents with 18 U.S.C. § 5033, which requires the “forthwith” presentation of an arrested juvenile before a United States Magistrate. Appellant, Indian Boy “X,” made a full confession of both an assault of one victim and a murder of another in an interview at an F.B.I. office in the State of Washington on Friday, May 14, 1976, five days after the incident. 1

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