State v. Stanfield

Adams, Judge.

The appellee, Wesley Brian Stanfield, was indicted for the offenses of rape, false imprisonment and child molestation. At the time the offenses allegedly occurred, Stanfield was employed as a deputy by the Sumter County Sheriffs Department. Prior to trial, Stanfield moved to suppress his statements made to an agent of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation on the basis that the statements were involuntarily made because he feared losing his law enforcement job and he was coerced by the law enforcement officer who obtained the statement. The trial court granted Stanfield’s motion,…