State v. Preble

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

Defendant Dalton R. Preble appeals from the judgment of conviction for manslaughter, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 203 (Supp.1980), entered against him on a jury verdict in Superior Court (Piscataquis County). On appeal defendant directs his attack exclusively against the Superior Court’s denial of his pretrial motion to suppress an oral confession and a subsequent written statement he gave to police officers in the early evening of August 8, 1979. He asserts that 1) prior to his oral confession the officers had detained or “seized” him in the Fourth Amendment sense, 2) at the time…