State v. Carl Hreha (070222)

This case involves an appeal from defendant Carl Hreha’s convictions for second-degree computer theft, contrary to N.J.S.A. 2C:20-25(b), and fourth-degree bias intimidation, contrary to N.J.S.A. 2C:16-1. Defendant asserts that the trial court improperly refused to suppress a confession that he had supplied involuntarily during a custodial interrogation. He argues that interrogating officers elicited his confession with promises of leniency and other beneficial treatment. The trial court, however, found that the officers had extended defendant no such promises, and it concluded that defendant…