People v. Topping

VAN CISE, Judge.

Defendant, Stanley Charles Topping, appeals a judgment of conviction entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty of first degree sexual assault, first degree burglary, and felony menacing. We affirm.

I

Defendant first asserts that the trial court erred in admitting his confession. He claims it was involuntary because it was made to a former police officer on that person’s promise not to reveal or use the confession. We disagree.

The record before us supports the trial court’s holding that police involvement was not so extensive as to create an agency relationship between the…