Georgia v. Walden
Annotate this CaseCarly Walden was charged with malice murder and other crimes for the April 2019, shooting death of her mother, Andrea Walker, at Walker’s home. Walden called police and reported a shooting; she claimed an unidentified man was responsible. Walden was taken to the county sheriff’s office, where she made statements to an investigator before being provided Miranda warnings. On Walden’s motion, the trial court suppressed those statements, while declining to suppress others that she had made earlier in the day. The State appealed the trial court’s ruling in advance of trial. Though the trial court record did not reflect explicit findings were made, the Georgia Supreme Court presumed the trial court implicitly made all the findings in support of its ruling that the record would allow on a motion that did not require such findings. The Supreme Court concluded the record in this case did not allow findings that would be necessary to conclude Walden was in custody when she made the statements at issue, so it reversed the trial court’s suppression of Walden’s statements.
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