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Title: Robert Joseph Eveslage v. Commissioner
Author : Court of Appeals of Minnesota
Release Date : January 31, 1984
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 62 KB

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A jury convicted Mark Owen Staats of the crime of aiding and abetting the first-degree murder of Dustin Jirasek. Staats was sentenced to life in prison. In this direct appeal, Staats contends that the district court erred in admitting into evidence each of the five statements he gave to police, the courts error was not harmless, and consequently his conviction should be reversed. We are asked to determine whether police obtained the first two statements in violation of the recording requirement of State v. Scales, 518 N.W.2d 587 (Minn. 1994), and, if so, whether statements and evidence subsequently obtained should be suppressed under a "fruit of the poisonous tree" analysis. We also consider whether one of the statements was obtained in violation of Staats right to counsel.