Involuntary/Coerced

Name: United States v. Bautista
Case #: 02-50664
Court: US Court of Appeals
District 9 Cir
Opinion Date: 03/26/2004
  • Categories: Conducted with Consent, Interrogations & Confessions, Involuntary/Coerced, Search & Seizure, Searches w/o Warrant

Bautista manufactured counterfeit currency while staying in a San Diego hotel room. He used a stolen credit card to reserve the room. When the hotel owner found the card was stolen, he informed police, who searched the room with the…

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Name: Maryland v. Pringle
Case #: 02-809
Court: US Supreme Court
District USSup
Opinion Date: 12/15/2003
Subsequent History: Cross cites: 124 S. Ct. 795; 157 L. Ed. 2d 769
  • Categories: Arrest, Cars, Incident to Lawful Arrest, Interrogations & Confessions, Involuntary/Coerced, Search & Seizure

Defendant’s confession did not require suppression where it resulted from a lawful arrest undertaken with probable cause. An officer stopped a car for speeding and saw a large amount of cash in the glove compartment while the driver was retrieving…

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Name: United States v. Haswood
Case #: 02-10516
Court: US Court of Appeals
District 9 Cir
Opinion Date: 12/01/2003
Subsequent History: None
  • Categories: Confessions, Interrogations & Confessions, Involuntary/Coerced

The defendant’s statements to the FBI regarding sexual abuse allegations were not coerced despite the fact that the FBI agent had shown defendant news reports regarding a different defendant who had lied to the agent about unrelated child molestation charges…

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Name: People v. Neal
Case #: S106440
Court: CA Supreme Court
District CalSup
Opinion Date: 07/14/2003
Subsequent History: None
  • Categories: Interrogations & Confessions, Involuntary/Coerced, Miranda v. Arizona

A police officer in his initial interrogation of appellant intentionally continued the interrogation in deliberate violation of Miranda, in spite of appellant's repeated (nine times) invocation of his right to remain silent and his request to speak with an attorney.…

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Name: Clark v. Murphy
Case #: 00-16727
Court: US Court of Appeals
District 9 Cir
Opinion Date: 01/23/2003
Subsequent History: Opn. amended & rehrg. den. 6/10/03
  • Categories: Evidence, Hearsay, Interrogations & Confessions, Involuntary/Coerced

Because the accused’s request for counsel was ambiguous, officers were not required to cease questioning. Here, appellant sold his step-mother’s car without her permission and the step-mother was now missing. After his arrest, appellant was read his Miranda rights and…

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Name: Beatty v. Stewart
Case #: 00-99007
Court: US Court of Appeals
District 9 Cir
Opinion Date: 08/27/2002
Subsequent History: Cert. den. 5/19/03
  • Categories: Interrogations & Confessions, Involuntary/Coerced

The Court of Appeal remanded for an evidentiary hearing to determine whether defendant’s confession to a prison psychiatrist was involuntary because he had been promised that all group therapy communication was confidential.

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Name: U.S. v. Amano
Court: US Court of Appeals
District 9 Cir
Opinion Date: 10/12/2000
Subsequent History: None
  • Categories: Conducted with Consent, Interrogations & Confessions, Involuntary/Coerced, Search & Seizure

As to the voluntariness of the Miranda waiver by a person whose native language is not English, the court noted that the factors considered include whether a written waiver was signed, whether the waiver was in the individual's native language,…

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Name: Garvin v. Farmon
Case #: 00-15295
Court: US Court of Appeals
District 9 Cir
Opinion Date: 08/02/2001
Subsequent History: None
  • Categories: Derivative Evidence(Wong Sun), Interrogations & Confessions, Involuntary/Coerced

Appellant was interrogated by two police officers for 45 minutes after she made repeated requests for counsel. Police officers told her that she could avoid a capital murder charge if she confessed, that nothing she told them would be used…

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Name: U.S. v. Michaud
Case #: 99-10440
Court: US Court of Appeals
District 9 Cir
Opinion Date: 09/25/2001
Subsequent History: None
  • Categories: Interrogations & Confessions, Involuntary/Coerced, Miranda v. Arizona

Appellant was a suspect in a kidnap and sexual assault in Nevada. Placer County police secured arrest warrants for both appellant and her boyfriend, and FBI agents who were aware of the warrants, went to appellant’s hotel room. They told…

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