DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The Iowa Court of Appeals says a Sioux City man serving a 50-year prison sentence on a child endangerment conviction may pursue an appeal based on his claim that police violated his right to remain silent. A three-member panel of the court says in a decision released Wednesday that a district court judge erred in dismissing Paul Hill’s appeal application.

Hill claims his attorney should have moved at trial to suppress statements he made to police in which he admitted to striking the child while buckling her into a car seat on Feb. 17, 2009. She died hours later.
Hill says he had asked police several times to stop interviewing him but detectives continued.  The 25-year-old Hill is in prison at Fort Dodge. He was convicted in July 2010.