State v. Locklear
Decision Date | 20 June 2000 |
Docket Number | No. COA99-847.,COA99-847. |
Citation | 138 NC App. 549,531 S.E.2d 853 |
Court | North Carolina Court of Appeals |
Parties | STATE of North Carolina v. Patrick Telly LOCKLEAR. |
Attorney General Michael F. Easley, by Special Deputy Attorney General Victoria L. Voight, for the State.
Hubert N. Rogers, III, Lumberton, for defendant-appellant.
Patrick Telly Locklear (Defendant) appeals from a jury verdict finding him guilty of first-degree statutory rape in violation of N.C. Gen.Stat. § 14-27.7A(a).
The State's evidence shows that on 13 August 1996, Defendant had vaginal intercourse with a thirteen-year-old female (H.E.) who was born on 19 November 1982. A few days after this occurrence, H.E. eventually told her mother she had sexual intercourse with Defendant. On 19 August 1996, Detective Donna Freeman Halliburton (Halliburton) of the Robeson County Sheriff's Department took a statement from H.E., which disclosed the details of H.E.'s sexual intercourse with Defendant.
On 13 September 1996, Defendant was arrested by Halliburton on the charge of statutory rape. Halliburton testified that in connection with Defendant's arrest, she filled out an "ARREST REPORT" which was dated "09/13/96" and timed "12:30[ ]."1 While obtaining information from Defendant to write on the "ARRESTEE INFORMATION" portion of the "ARREST REPORT," Halliburton asked Defendant his date of birth. She testified she questioned Defendant to fill out the arrestee information before reading Defendant his Miranda rights, because "[i]t was just a form we used to get the information on the person that we're talking with." Halliburton testified that "[t]o obtain information about the arrestee and the case," she would request "[h]is name, date of birth, address, height, weight, hair color, any marks or tatoos on him, nearest kin, the arrest information on the warrant, [and] the information about the bond."
At trial, counsel for Defendant objected to and moved to strike the State's question regarding Defendant's date of birth and also moved to suppress Defendant's statement regarding his date of birth. The trial court denied Defendant's motions.
Halliburton subsequently testified Defendant stated his date of birth was 2 August 1976. Defendant's motion to strike this testimony was denied by the trial court. Defendant was read his Miranda rights at 1:10 p.m. on 13 September 1996, forty minutes after he had told Halliburton of his date of birth.
After the State rested its case, Defendant asked the trial court to reconsider his motion to suppress the statement given to Halliburton concerning his date of birth. The trial court denied this request.
In this case, Halliburton, while completing an arrest form which called for certain basic information about Defendant, asked Defendant his date of birth. Defendant responded by giving his date of birth. Halliburton, in addition to booking Defendant, was also the investigating officer having previously taken a statement from the alleged victim of Defendant's sexual assault. Since Defendant's age was an essential element of the crime charged,4 Halliburton, as the investigating officer, knew or should have known her question regarding Defendant's date of birth would elicit an incriminating response. Accordingly, Defendant was entitled to the Miranda warnings prior to the...
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