State v. Pehowic

The defendant, Edward Pehowic, appeals his conviction by jury in the Superior Court (Mohl, J.) on One count of first degree murder, see RSA 630:l-a (1996), arguing that the trial court erred when it failed to *53suppress his confession, which was taken in the absence of counsel. We affirm.

The facts are uncontested, and were detailed in the superior court’s order as follows. In September 1996, Sergeant Tucker of the Portsmouth Police Department was assigned to investigate the case of Carol Caswell, a missing person. In early 1998, Thomas Hart of the Strafford County Attorney’s office, who had…