State v. Bruneau

The defendant stands convicted of first degree murder, RSA 630:1-a, 1(a), and appeals on four assignments of trial and post-trial error by the Superior Court (Cann, J.): (a) in admitting the defendant’s inculpatory statements to an informer, over the objection that receipt of the informer’s testimony violated State and federal rights to counsel; (b) in ruling that other statements of the defendant, concededly obtained in derogation of State and federal rights to counsel, could be used to impeach him if he took the stand; (c) in refusing to give proffered jury instructions on the significance…