Court Opinion

ID: 9586993
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:17:07.970341+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:58.385601
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Hill, Chief Justice,
dissenting.
The defendant’s confession was obtained after he was confined to jail for four weeks, with bond set at $90,000 for three theft charges, to “facilitate the ongoing investigation into the death of the mother” (majority opinion, above, Division 2 (a)). He was “questioned regularly (at least six times, according to the record)” (majority opinion, statement of facts). Although the police knew that counsel had been appointed to represent the defendant on the three charges *345on which he was being held, counsel was not present when the confession was given. When the confession was obtained, the theft charges were dropped. I therefore am unable to agree with the majority’s conclusion that in light of the totality of the circumstances, the defendant’s confession was voluntary. I therefore dissent and ask this question:
If the defendant had not confessed to murder after four weeks, how long would he have been held in jail and interrogated?