Georgia criminal defense attorney wins suppression of client’s involuntary confession
The Court of Appeals of Georgia recently upheld a trial court’s ruling which suppressed a defendant’s statement due to being involuntary. The court reasoned that the interviewing officer told that the defendant that he had committed theft by taking rather than armed robbery which induced the defendant to make the statement. In State v. Klepper, the defendant, Klepper, was indicted for armed robbery in Fulton County. On the day in question, Klepper was suspected of committing an armed robbery in a ...
