State v. Pettis

ANDREWS, Presiding Judge.

The State appeals from the trial court’s order granting Brandon L. Pettis’s motion to suppress his confession. The trial court held that the officers’ testimony that they read Pettis his Miranda rights before questioning him was not credible. Because this decision was not clearly erroneous, we affirm.

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