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Defendant's Rights Not Violated by Placing Informant in Cell

By Shari Allison

US v. Cook, -- F.3d --, 2010 WL 1268529 (10th Cir. 4/5/10)In interlocutory government appeal, the court reverses the district court's suppression of statements made to a jail-house informant. The government notice of appeal was timely because it was filed within 30 days of district court order denying motion for reconsideration. Although that motion seemed to be merely a request for clarification of the wording of the district court's order, the government argued two issues which would have resulted in reversal if the court ruled in the government's favor and so it postponed the running of the time for appeal. Mr. Cook declined to talk with sheriff's office investigators regarding the death of a cellmate and invoked his right to counsel...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tenth Circuit Blog on April 06, 2010 (boomark / email).