State v. Tamerius

This is an interlocutory appeal by the State under Neb. Rev. Stat. § 29-116 (Reissue 1985) to review the order of the district court sustaining the defendant’s motion to suppress a confession made by him to a law enforcement officer on May 4, 1989.

The record shows that on May 4,1989, Thayer County Chief Deputy Sheriff William R. McPherson was investigating a reported sexual assault of the defendant’s 4-year-old son. On a previous occasion, McPherson had investigated a report of a sexual assault on the defendant’s infant daughter. During the earlier investigation, the defendant spoke with…