State v. Severson

The issue presented is whether a psychiatrist’s report should have been admitted into evidence as an adoptive admission. The report was used in a pretrial hearing on defendant’s motion to suppress statements she made to the police. The question was whether defendant was competent to waive her Miranda 1 rights. After reviewing the report, the trial judge ruled that defendant was competent and declined to suppress her statements. Defendant was convicted of robbery in the first degree and she appeals.

Two masked men robbed a convenience store and left in a car driven by a third person. Soon…