Court Opinion

ID: 9702333
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 23:07:12.30899+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:21:36.702084
License: Public Domain

*319TERRY, Associate Judge,
concurring:
I join in the opinion and judgment of the court. I add these few words to emphasize that our reversal of appellant’s conviction is not based on any finding of trickery or deviousness on the part of Detective Cor-boy. Appellant suggests that Corboy may have acted improperly by instructing the transporting officers not to talk to appellant, or that the manner in which he dealt with appellant may have been slyly designed to elicit a confession that would appear to have been volunteered, and therefore beyond the reach of Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966). The record simply does not support such an argument; on the contrary, it makes plain — at least to me— that everything Corboy did was done entirely in good faith. We are reversing appellant’s conviction solely because Detective Corboy asked one question too many. Once appellant answered “no” to the fourth question on the PD-47, Corboy should have said nothing more. The confession that resulted from the ensuing conversation must be suppressed under Edwards v. Arizona, 451 U.S. 477, 101 S.Ct. 1880, 68 L.Ed.2d 378 (1981), and Smith v. Illinois, 469 U.S. 91, 105 S.Ct. 490, 83 L.Ed.2d 488 (1984).