Opinion ID: 2066238
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Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Police Testimony Regarding Brisbon's Confession

Text: Brisbon was arrested at 11:30 a.m. on May 24 at his place of work (C & T Auto Shop) by the Prince George's County, Maryland police. He was wearing a bulletproof vest. D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Detectives Michael Irving and J.O. Johnson arrived at the police station in Prince George's County between 3-4 p.m. that day. Detective Irving gave Brisbon a hamburger and Brisbon agreed to waive his extradition rights, but they did not discuss the shooting. The detectives then drove Brisbon to the District of Columbia in a patrol car, chatting idly, and did not talk about the shooting. Once they arrived at the D.C. police station, Detective Irving took Brisbon to an interrogation room and told him that he was under arrest for two murders on May 17, and had been identified as being a shooter that night. The detective told [Brisbon] just to listen and let [Det. Irving] tell him what [the police] knew about the case and what he was being charged for. Detectives Credle and Irving testified that they did not ask Brisbon any questions or discuss the facts of the case further until Brisbon signed the PD-47 form waiving his Miranda rights at 7:14 p.m. See Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966) The detectives then began interrogating Brisbon, and, during the first fifteen minutes, Brisbon denied everything. Detective Irving told him that they had searched the house where Brisbon lived with his mother and grandmother and that the police recovered drugs and a shotgun out of his grandmother's house, which was trueand that his grandmother had got upset and was rushed to the hospital and that his mother was placed under arrestwhich was false. According to the detectives, Brisbon dropped his head and was quiet for a few seconds, then admitted that he did it, saying that he did not want anyone else to get in trouble. Detectives Irving and Credle insisted that Brisbon give them all of the details of the crime, because a blanket confession would not convince them that he had told the truth. The detectives denied promising Brisbon that confessing would aid his mother or grandmother. The interrogation continued for two hours, until, at around 9:30 p.m., Brisbon consented to a videotaped confession.