State v. Randant

In this criminal case, defendant repeatedly called the police over a five-month period asking to talk to them. He did so after the police had advised him that he had been indicted for aggravated murder and after his lawyer had advised him not to talk to the police. The question that this case poses is what steps the state and federal constitutions required the police to take before they could accept defendant’s repeated invitations to talk with him. The trial court held that the officers had respected defendant’s constitutional rights, and the Court of Appeals upheld that ruling. State v.…