Opinion ID: 151087
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Hall's Testimony in Suppression Hearing

Text: Defendant Hall also testified about the questioning. After being arrested and put into the police car, Defendant Hall heard his father ask if he could be present when Hall was being questioned. Officer Major told Hall's father he could. At the police station, before the officers began questioning him, Hall asked about his father: I said, where is my daddy? I thought my daddy was supposed to be here when y'all are questioning me. They said, don't worry, he is upstairs. Hall testified that the officers handcuffed him to the desk and threatened him during the questioning: First they read all that what Alonzo said. Then they said, is this true? I said, no, sir. Then Grant said, why are you lying? I said, I ain't lying, sir, I promise you. Y'all got the wrong one. The other man said, stop lying, we know you did it . . . . I said, I don't know nothing about it, I want to go home . . . . He said, I am tired of you lying to me, son. He pointed to Mr. Grant. Mr. Grant came around. He kicked the chair and turned it around and the thing clamped real hard and squeezed my arm. I said, I don't know what you are talking about, sir. Then the other man said, we know you did it. I said, no, I didn't. He kicked it again. Then it hurt more. Everything on my body was shaking. He said, I am tired of you children lying. I said, I don't know what you are talking about. He said, why are you lying? He hit the desk. Grant did just like that. I jumped. He kicked it again and turned it over. Defendant Hall does not dispute that Officer Major twice read him both his state juvenile rights and adult Miranda rights. Hall also admits he read and signed the state juvenile rights form and the adult Miranda rights form but testified he did not understand them. Hall signed the statement confessing his involvement because he was scared of the officers and tried to tell them what they wanted to hear to keep them from attacking me. Hall testified he knew what to say in his confession because the officers read Leak's statement to him four or five times.