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Circuil Court Judge Shore Robertson rejected a request Thursday from Harriet P. Newman to suppress her confession to being part of a burglary ring, dismissing the contention that she was suffering from heroin withdrawal at the time she gave her statement and therefore could not knowlingly waive her right to remain silent.

Newman's alleged companions, Anthony Tyler and Herman Newman, pleaded guilty earlier this year to six charges of breaking and entering and grand larceny in offenses which occurred here last July, and both received suspended sentences.

All three are currently serving prison terms handed down in Culpeper for similar charges.

Newman, 21, who gave her address as the Goochland Penitentiary, testified (hat she was arrested at her apartment in Culpeper on August 31. 1981, taken to a bondsman’s office and then to jail.

She admitted to being addicted at that time to heroin, a drug she had injected daily for seven years, including the morning of her arrest. “I'm not sure how much I took at a time—it was a lot."

She described the "high" from heroin as "sort of like a drunk. Like I’m sleeping but I’m not." The effects from one morning injection last until evening, Newman said, “but 1 just kept running more into my body."

Without continued heroin doses, withdrawal sets in. Newman told the judge that symptoms began after she was taken to jail on the day of her arrest. "I was really paranoid. I had stomach cramping. 1 could see things...spiders, bugs and stuff...1 was hearing ringing in my head. It was really painful.” Nauseated, delusional and in pain, she was unable to sleep or eat the