State of Iowa
v.
Adam Golden McCain
Appellee
State of Iowa
Appellant
Adam Golden McCain
Attorney for the Appellee
Darrell Mullins, Assistant Attorney General
Attorney for the Appellant
Vidhya K. Reddy, Assistant Appellate Defender
Court of Appeals
Court of Appeals Opinion
Opinion Number:
Date Published:
Summary
Appeal from the Iowa District Court for Lee (South) County, Mary Ann Brown, Judge. AFFIRMED. Heard by Bower, C.J., and Tabor and Ahlers, JJ. Opinion by Ahlers, J. (17 pages)
Adam McCain appeals his conviction for murder in the first degree. He argues the district court should have granted his motion to suppress statements he made while at the jail. OPINION HOLDS: The officers scrupulously honored McCain’s right to remain silent, and he properly waived this right. As controlling precedent declines to impose a requirement to prove waiver by written or video-recorded means, we reject McCain’s request to adopt such a requirement. McCain’s fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree argument is not preserved for our review, and even if it were, there was no impropriety that warrants suppression of McCain’s statements to relatives.
