Opinion ID: 1742893
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Heading: Fruit of unlawful arrest

Text: For his second assignment of error, Oliver asserts that his confession was the fruit of Michael Friend's illegal arrest, see Friend v. State, 315 Ark. 143, 865 S.W.2d 275 (1993), and, thus, the trial court erred in admitting his statements. In response, the State asserts that Oliver lacks standing to raise Friend's illegal arrest and subsequent tainted confession. We can easily dispose of this point of appeal, as Oliver did not raise this argument in his motion to suppress. We rejected a similar argument raised by George Rhoades in a companion case. In Rhoades v. State, 319 Ark. 45, 888 S.W.2d 654 (1994), we said: the State contends that Rhoades has no standing to raise Michael Friend's tainted statement due to a violation of Friend's Fourth Amendment rights. We will not address the argument of an arrest tainted by Friend's statement, however, because the argument of an arrest tainted by Friend's statement was not made to the trial court as part of Rhoades's motions to suppress. The two motions filed sought to suppress Rhoades's statements on the basis that it resulted from an arrest without probable cause and due to Miranda deficiencies. No mention of a tainted statement from Michael Friend is made and no argument to that effect exists in the record. It is well established that we will not address issues raised for the first time on appeal. 319 Ark. at 49-50, 888 S.W.2d at 657. (Citations omitted.) In Oliver's motion to suppress, he asserted that (1) his interrogation on March 25, 1992, followed his illegal arrest without probable cause; (2) officers did not read him his Miranda rights; (3) he did not knowingly, intelligently or voluntarily waive his constitutional rights; (4) he was denied his Sixth Amendment right to counsel; and (5) any statement taken during custodial interrogation was the result of coercion, physical intimidation, and/or unauthorized promises of leniency by police. As was the case in Rhoades , Oliver made no mention of a tainted statement from Michael Friend in his motion to suppress, and no argument to that effect exists in the record. Thus, we cannot address Oliver's second argument on appeal.