Case Title: State v. Keith

Citation: 160 Vt. 257, 628 A.2d 1247

Docket Number: 

State: vermont

Court: Vermont Supreme Court

Date: 1993-02-01T00:00:00Z

Document:
STATE_V_KEITH.91-582; 160 Vt. 257; 628 A.2d 1247


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                                 No. 91-582


 State of Vermont                             Supreme Court

                                              On Appeal from
      v.                                      District Court of Vermont,
                                              Unit No. 2, Franklin Circuit

 James E. Keith                               February Term, 1993



 Ronald F. Kilburn, J. (motions to suppress)
 Edward J. Cashman, J. (trial)

 Howard E. VanBenthuysen, Franklin County State's Attorney, and Jo-Ann L.
    Gross, Deputy State's Attorney, St. Albans, for plaintiff-appellee

 Charles Martin and Edward Wayland, Law Clerk (On the Brief) of Martin &
    Paolini, Barre, for defendant-appellant


 PRESENT:  Allen, C.J., Gibson, Dooley, Morse and Johnson, JJ.



      GIBSON, J.   Defendant appeals from a jury conviction of first-degree
 arson, in violation of 13 V.S.A. { 502.  He argues that the trial court
 committed reversible error by refusing to suppress two statements he made on
 separate occasions to different police officers.  He contends that in both
 instances his intoxicated state prevented him from making a knowing and
 intelligent waiver of his constitutional rights, as required by Miranda v.
 Arizona,