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offenses which occurred in Rappahannocak and that a secreiary in ihe Culpeper sheriff s office look down her staiemem in shorthand. Luke argued that Newman's statement came as a result of threats from Culpeper investigators that she would be “sent down the river" and would never have access to drugs again and in response to the promise of a bondsman. “She was desperate to get out of jail to gel more drugs," the attorney said. She also maintained that the defendant didn’t understand her rights to remain silent and have an attorney present because of a confusion induced by drug withdrawal. Newman’s shivering was evidence that she was under stress, Luke added.
Baumgardner countered that by the defendant’s own admission that she understood the warning read to her by Godlewski. If she felt compelled to confess as the result of heroin withdrawal, it was a compulsion that came from drugs she administered to herself, he said, arguing that there was no affirmative act by the police which would constitute coercion.
Baumgardner added that when Newman is tried for offenses here, a jury could hear testimony regarding her condition at the time she made her statement to the police and could weigh the value of that confession.
“The court has to look closely at the interrogation selling," noted Judge Robertson. He pointed out that the interrogating officer had observed Newman to be lucid and clear in her thought processes and had
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