PEOPLE v. LYTLE

No. 83CA0802.

704 P.2d 331 (1985)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Rocky Leigh LYTLE, Defendant-Appellant.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. I.

June 27, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duane Woodard, Atty. Gen., Charles B. Howe, Chief Deputy Atty. Gen., Richard H. Forman, Sol. Gen., Maureen Phelan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for plaintiff-appellee.

David F. Vela, Public Defender, Matthew L. Goldsmith and Karen A. Chaney, Deputy Public Defenders, Denver, for defendant-appellant.


STERNBERG, Judge.

Following a trial to the court, the defendant, Rocky Lytle, was convicted of burglary and theft. He appeals contending that his confession was involuntary and should have been suppressed. We reverse.

The police received an anonymous phone call implicating the defendant and a juvenile, one "Darby," in the burglary of a church. The police contacted the defendant's parents, and later that day the defendant went to the police station with his...

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