Opinion ID: 151087
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Father's Testimony in Suppression Hearing

Text: Curtis Hall, Hall's father, also testified and his account differs in some respects from Officer Major's. When Officers Major and Grant came to his house and arrested Hall, Curtis Hall asked Officer Major, since you are the one doing all the talking, shouldn't me as a parent or an attorney be present when y'all get ready to question Darryl? Officer Major replied, yes, you can. The officers took Hall to the police station in a patrol car. Curtis Hall went on his own to the police station. He waited in a hallway for ten to fifteen minutes. Officers Grant and Major walked past him. According to Curtis Hall, Officer Major said, We will call you when we get started. Curtis Hall stayed another fifteen to twenty minutes. He finally went downstairs, and Officer Major showed him to a bench down there. Curtis Hall stayed on that bench anywhere from forty-five minutes to an hour, maybe a little longer than that. At one point, Officer Major came out of the interview room complaining of a headache, and Curtis Hall asked whether they had started questioning Hall. According to Curtis Hall, Officer Major replied, Yes. He is lying but we will get it out of him, and then Officer Major turned around and went right back quick. Curtis Hall testified, [s]till [the officers] never come and asked me, tell me they had started the interrogation. I am sitting there waiting to go in there. Curtis Hall never entered the interview room. Officer Major did tell Curtis Hall that Hall was read his rights and understood them. Curtis Hall never saw his son at the station until Hall came out of the interview room. [7]