Fitzgerald v. State

Appellant, William John Fitzgerald, appeals his second-degree murder conviction on three grounds: (1) Inculpatory statements made to the police (in which appellant admitted attacking the victim) were the fruit of an illegal arrest; (2) the appellant was denied a fair trial when the prosecutor made indirect use of a knife which the trial judge ordered suppressed on Fourth Amendment grounds; and (3) the State unfairly surprised the defense with a major prosecution witness. We will affirm.