Opinion ID: 2319916
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: whether the defendant's statements must be suppressed

Text: Although I would not exclude the statements from evidence for the reasons stated in the majority opinion, I must separately consider whether the statements are admissible or whether they must be suppressed on a different basis. Because the defendant's second statementthat he was not a murderer and that he and his accomplice went to Stamford on the day in question only to look for workrepeated everything that the defendant said in his first statementthat he was not a murdererand because I would conclude that the second statement is admissible, it is unnecessary to analyze the defendant's first statement separately. I therefore analyze only the admissibility of the defendant's second statement and his narrative statement. For the reasons that follow, I would conclude that the defendant's second statement is admissible but that his narrative statement should be suppressed.