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STATE v. JOHNSON

No. 16.

285 S.E.2d 792 (1982)

STATE of North Carolina v. James Ray JOHNSON.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

January 12, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus L. Edmisten, Atty. Gen. by W. A. Raney, Jr., Sp. Deputy Atty. Gen., Raleigh, for the State.

Adam Stein, Appellate Defender, and Marc D. Towler, Asst. Appellate Defender, of Appellate Defender Project for North Carolina, Raleigh, for defendant-appellant.

HUSKINS, Justice:

Defendant first assigns as error the denial of his motion to suppress his statement without finding beyond a reasonable doubt that the State had sustained its burden of proving that defendant's statement was voluntarily given.

The United States Constitution forbids the admission in a criminal trial of a confession coerced from a defendant. Rogers v. Richmond, 365 U.S. 534, 81 S.Ct. 735, 5 L.Ed.2d 760...

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