State v. Middleton

Douglas Middleton appeals from a judgment convicting him of first-degree murder, arson, and armed robbery, secs. 940.01, 943.02 and 943.32(2), Stats. Middleton argues that the trial court should have suppressed his post-arrest oral and written confessions that he killed Hilda Miller. He asserts that his statements were inadmissible because (1) he gave the statements during interrogation after he invoked his right to counsel, (2) before questioning him the interrogating detectives failed to ask whether he had counsel, and (3) he was not told that the attorney he requested was present and…