Statements made by a Coeur d'Alene teen to police after he was arrested for allegedly killing his father and brother in March will be heard during his trial, Kootenai County District Court Judge Benjamin Simpson ruled Thursday.

Simpson was asked by Public Defender John Adams to suppress the statements made by his client, Eldon Samuel III, then 14, while he was detained and interrogated by Coeur d'Alene Police detectives. During a hearing last week, Adams argued that detectives downplayed the gravity of Samuel's situation - the teen faces life in prison if found guilty - and coerced him into signing a waiver of his Miranda rights so they could interrogate him without an attorney present.

In his written decision on Adams' motion, Simpson said he conducted a thorough review of testimony and documentation on the issue prior to deciding to allow the teen's testimony.

"Due to the nature and gravity of both the pending motion to suppress and the case as a whole, the court finds that it is necessary to provide a detailed, chronological account of the events that resulted in Eldon's alleged confession that is now at issue," Simpson wrote.

The 57-page decision sheds light on what occurred in the hours after the teen allegedly killed his father, Eldon G. Samuel Jr., 46, and his younger brother, Jonathan Samuel, 13, at the Coeur d'Alene home in which they lived.

Police records show the boy called in the report himself on March 24 at 9:09 p.m. and Simpson included a transcript of the call in his decision. Approximately halfway through the call, the following exchange took place:

OPERATOR: He had the gun, and you took it from him and shot him when he was hitting you?

CALLER: No, I had the gun. I was hiding it from him, and...

OPERATOR: Okay.

CALLER: And then he started hitting me. Told me to get out of the house. Leave everything. Told me to get out. And he, he started. And I said no. And he started hitting me. And then he, and the next time he hit me, shot him.

OPERATOR: Okay.

CALLER: (Inaudible)

OPERATOR: Alright. So your brother's John Samuel?

CALLER: Yeah.

OPERATOR: How old's your brother?

CALLER: Eleven I think.

OPERATOR: Okay. And you shot him too?

CALLER: Yeah.

The call ends shortly after, when Coeur d'Alene Police officers arrive at the home. Samuel was arrested and taken to an interview room at the police station.

"This is a Miranda warning. You know how you see on TV, you see like these cop shows? They're just TV shows. Let me tell ya, they're made up. But they slam guys against the car," a transcript of Detective Wilhelm's conversation with the teen reads. "They're slamming them up against the car and they read these rights to them. And it's kind of at the same time, sometimes they slam up against the car, put them in jail, then they read his rights. And so that's not anything like this. Alright."

According to the transcript, Samuel nodded his head "yes" and the detective tells the teen that "these are just some rights that everyone is entitled to," before reading him his Miranda rights.

The teen replied "um-hum" both times he was asked if he understood what the detective was saying. He was then handed a pen and signed two documents agreeing to waive his Miranda rights.

In his decision, Simpson wrote that Samuel was in custody "for Miranda purposes" from the moment handcuffs were placed on him and that the teen was not kept from his right to legal counsel since the interrogation took place "prior to commencement of Eldon's criminal prosecution."

"Based upon the totality of the circumstances as discussed in detail above, for example Eldon's indications that he understood his Miranda rights and his use and understanding of sophisticated terminology, the court finds that Eldon's Miranda waiver was knowing, intelligent and voluntary," Simpson wrote.

Samuel faces one count of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder and is scheduled for a jury trial in June.