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State v. McAdams

193 So. 3d 824 (2016)

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State v. McAdams

Florida Supreme Court
193 So. 3d 824 (2016)

DC

Facts

In October 2009, police asked McAdams (defendant) to come to the station to speak with detectives during an investigation into the disappearance of McAdams’s estranged wife and her boyfriend. The officers specifically told McAdams that he was not under arrest and did not issue Miranda warnings before starting an interview at the station. Unbeknownst to McAdams, an attorney retained by McAdams’s father came to the police station during the interview but was not allowed to go to the interview room. Officers told the attorney that messages could not be sent to McAdams by any means and, before leaving the station, the attorney told officers that he wanted the interview to stop. McAdams was never told about the attorney, and detectives continued the interview. Ten minutes after the attorney left the station, McAdams confessed to killing his estranged wife and her boyfriend. At trial for the murders, McAdams filed a motion to suppress the confession and related evidence, arguing that he was denied his right to counsel. The state (plaintiff) and McAdams petitioned the court for review of a certified question of whether police must inform an individual being questioned in a nonpublic area about the presence of a retained attorney.

Rule of Law

Issue

Holding and Reasoning (Lewis, J.)

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