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Brewer v. State

The officer was not required to disclose on the waiver-of-rights form potential charges faced by the defendant, since such disclosure was not relevant to the question of whether the defendant's waiver was knowing and voluntary.

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After a trial, a Barrow County Superior Court found David Brewer guilty of possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime1 and criminal damage to property.2 Brewer appeals, arguing that the trial court erred by admitting statements he made to officers because they were not voluntarily made. For the reasons that follow, we affirm. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict,3 Brewer drove Linton “Quintez” Rhodes and Robert Ellington to the home of a woman whom Rhodes was dating after Rhodes had a telephonic altercation with the woman’s brother. When the three arrived at her home, Ellington fired six or seven gunshots at the home and the brother’s vehicle, resulting in damage to the house and the car. At the time of the shooting, the woman, her brother, her sister, another adult male, and a small child were in the home, and the three siblings were awake and frightened by the shots. Shell casings from a Winchester rifle were found at the scene; a rifle matching the shell casings was recovered from Ellington’s home.

The woman called the police, giving them Rhodes’s information and discussing the prior altercation; after investigating the scene, officers interviewed Rhodes, who implicated Brewer and Ellington. Brewer made a statement to investigators that he drove the car during the event, and his statement was introduced at trial.

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