ALMEIDA v. STATE

No. 96-0140.

687 So.2d 37 (1997)

Osvaldo ALMEIDA, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

January 15, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Jorandby, Public Defender, and Joseph R. Chloupek, Assistant Public Defender, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, Tallahassee, and Don M. Rogers, Assistant Attorney General, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


WARNER, Judge.

In this appeal from his conviction for first degree murder, the appellant claims that his taped confession to the murder in this case should have been suppressed because he made an equivocal invocation of his Miranda right to counsel which was not clarified before questioning. We agree and reverse.

The appellant was a suspect in several murders in Broward County. Appellant was taken into custody for questioning and was given his Miranda...

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