State v. Gulley

Defendant Robert J. Gulley appeals from the district court’s exclusion of his mother’s testimony at a suppression hearing and the court’s subsequent denial of his motion to suppress statements in which he admitted to having stolen $1300. We affirm.

I

Upon learning that defendant might have been involved in the theft of $1300 from a bus driver, Bennington Police Officer William Derosia called the Gulley household on several occasions to arrange an interview with defendant at the police station. In response to those calls, defendant’s mother drove her nineteen-year-old son to the station during…