Cole v. State

STEELE, Chief Justice,

for the Majority:

Pursuant to an agreement he thought he had with the State, the defendant-appellant, Donald Cole, gave a statement to a Deputy Attorney General implicating one of Cole’s accomplices to a crime. The police confronted the accomplice with Cole’s statement. Cole asserts that the agreement he had reached before making his statement prohibited the State from using the statement for any purpose other than determining whether the State would seek the death penalty. On the basis of the alleged agreement, as he claims to have understood it, Cole moved to suppress…