State v. Edwards

HAYS, Chief Justice.

We have determined that we must affirm the lower court’s granting of the defendant’s motion to suppress. We thought that it had long ago become unnecessary to remind the police departments of this state of the requirements of the United States Constitution as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court, particularly with regard to the privilege against self-incrimination and the right to counsel.

At the hearing on the defendant’s motion to suppress, the following facts came out:

On July 12, 1973, at approximately 10:20 P.M., officers of the Tucson Police Department…