State v. J.Y.

HUBBART, Judge.

This is an appeal by the state from a trial court order in a juvenile delinquency proceeding suppressing certain incriminating statements made by the respondent J.Y. to the police. The trial court suppressed the statements because admittedly no Miranda warnings were given to the respondent prior to the police interrogation which produced the statements. The state contended in the trial court that no Miranda warnings were required because the statements were obtained during a consensual encounter between the police and the respondent. The trial court disagreed and concluded…