State v. Vachon

The defendant appeals his conviction in Superior Court (Dalianis, J.) on one charge of endangering the welfare of a child. RSA 639:3, .1 & III. He argues here that certain post-arrest statements made by him were the fruits of an unlawful arrest and were therefore erroneously admitted into evidence. We disagree and accordingly affirm.

On April 21, 1986, the victim, a fourteen-year-old female, was delivering newspapers on her after-school paper route in Milford when she encountered the defendant, Carl Vachon. Vachon lived in the neighborhood in the same household as A1 Buskey, a friend of the…