Trial of the negress and the microwaved niglet
Statements China Arnold made to authorities about the death of her infant daughter are admissible in court, Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge John Kessler ruled this week.
Police say Arnold told investigators shortly after her daughter was found dead on Aug. 30, 2005, that she was so intoxicated the night before her baby died, she didn’t know what caused the infant’s fatal burns. Arnold, 27, is accused of killing her 3 1/2 week old daughter by putting her in a microwave oven.
Kessler ruled in July that statements made in August, 2005, were admissible. But he postponed a decision on motions to suppress Arnold’s alleged statements after her arrest on Nov. 22, 2006.
Arnold’s attorneys, John H. Rion and Jon Paul Rion, asked that statements after the arrest be ruled inadmissible on the grounds that they were obtained as the fruit of a faulty arrest. They argued that the affidavit used to obtain a warrant for Arnold’s arrest didn’t contain enough information to provide probable cause for a warrant to be issued.
In a ruling issued Tuesday, Kessler agreed that the affidavit was insufficient. But he said that before the arrest could be ruled invalid, the defendant would have had to prove the statements made to obtain the warrant “were made with reckless disregard of whether they would mislead the issuing authority.”
Kessler also ruled that the arrest was valid because Arnold was arrested on her porch, a public place, instead of inside her house. Kessler ruled that testimony from an Arnold relative that she was arrested inside the house was not as credible as testimony from police saying she was arrested outside.
Flashback: Cops Suspect Microwave Was Murder Weapon
December 11th, 2007 at 10:18 am
dat dumb botch need to be put in da damn microwave! straighten oput dem nappy ass dreds!