State v. Readus

OPINION

WILLIAM S. RUSSELL, Special Judge.

The single issue before the court is the proper interpretation and application of Rule 5(a) of the Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure, which rule explicitly requires that an arrested person be taken before a magistrate without unnecessary delay.

This case is before us on a Rule 9 interlocutory appeal granted to the State. We are urged by the State to reverse an order of the trial court suppressing evidence of an electronically recorded confession taken by police officers from the appellee, Marvin Readus, about three to three and a half hours after he…