Pierce v. State

I concur in the results reached by the Court and join in the Courts decision to affirm the judgment and sentence. While I agree with the analysis set forth by the Court as to Propositions II and III, I do not join in the analysis forming the basis of the denial of the allegation of error in Proposition I.

The focus of Appellant’s first proposition of error is, in fact, that the statements given were involuntary statements. Therefore, the Court’s statement “[Ujnlike the Arnold, case, there is no dispute here that the statement was voluntarily given”, does not correctly state the nature of the…