PORTLAND (AP) — Maine’s highest court on Tuesday upheld the convictions of a 23-year-old man serving a life sentence for a triple murder whose lawyer said he was “played” by a skilled law enforcement officer during an interrogation.
The defense contended Thayne Ormsby’s remark that “I’m going to have to plead the Fifth on that one” should have been enough for the detective to end the interrogation.
But the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled unanimously that Ormsby’s confessions were made voluntarily and that their admission during his trial didn’t violate his Fifth Amendment rights.
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