State v. Bishop

DECISION

Defendant Alfred Bishop ("Bishop") has filed a motion to suppress statements which he made while in the custody of the Warwick Police Department on July 3, 2007. Essentially, Defendant Bishop claims that because he was not provided with the Miranda1 warnings prior to the police interrogation, the statements he made to the police are inadmissible. More specifically, he argues that because he was never advised of his rights under Miranda, his statements were not voluntarily made in the constitutional sense. After carefully considering the evidence presented at hearing, oral arguments,…