Reaves v. State

I respectfully dissent. In my view, reversal of appellant’s conviction is mandated where the prosecution was allowed to impeach appellant’s trial testimony, over objection, by the introduction of his post-arrest statements to police which the court had previously suppressed as involuntary.

Reaves’ pre-trial motion to suppress certain inculpatory post-arrest statements asserted, among other grounds, that 1) the statements were obtained in violation of appellant’s constitutionally guaranteed right to counsel and privilege against self-incrimination as interpreted in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S.…