People v. Brannan

(to reverse). After defendant had been given Miranda 1 warnings on each of two occasions on February 16, 1973, he waived those rights and confessed to manual strangulation of Peggy Smith. The first waiver was to State Police Sergeant Ronald Beauchine, who administered a polygraph test to defendant at defendant’s behest, which, he said, was on advice of his lawyer. (In fact, he neither had retained counsel nor had he requested appointment of counsel, it was later discovered.) The second waiver immediately followed the polygraph test when defendant said he wanted to tell Officer Dean all about…