Brandon Clark Fritts, Appellant v. State of Arkansas, Appellee

Summary

The Supreme Court of Arkansas affirmed Fritts’s convictions and life sentence, holding that his statement that he had already told police everything he knew was not an unequivocal invocation of his right to remain silent. Because no valid invocation occurred, the court did not decide whether showing Fritts the murder weapon constituted the functional equivalent of interrogation. The court also found no prejudicial error on its required review of adverse rulings.