Interrogations & Confessions

Name: Rodriguez v. McDonald
Case #: 12-56594
Court: US Court of Appeals
District 9 Cir
Opinion Date: 09/29/2017
  • Categories: Confessions, Extraordinary Remedies, Habeas Corpus (Federal), Interrogations & Confessions, Miranda v. Arizona

Federal habeas relief warranted where state court unreasonably determined police honored petitioner's invocation of right to counsel during interrogation when he was fourteen years old. When he was fourteen years old, a California jury found Rodriguez guilty of second degree…

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Name: People v. Campbell
Case #: B267280
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 2 DCA
Division: 6
Opinion Date: 06/08/2017
  • Categories: Actus Reus, Admitting/Excluding, All Other Crimes, Crimes, Evidence, Interrogations & Confessions, Miranda v. Arizona

Defendant's post-Mirandized silence was properly admitted during trial to rebut defendant's claim that he fully cooperated with police. Campbell drove his car into multiple people on the Venice Beach Boardwalk. At his trial for murder and related offenses, Campbell said…

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Name: United States v. Luna Zapien
Case #: 14-10224
Court: US Court of Appeals
District 9 Cir
Opinion Date: 07/03/2017
  • Categories: Interrogations & Confessions, Miranda v. Arizona

Biographical questions asked during a routine booking procedure after defendant's invocation of his right to counsel did not amount to interrogation because they were not reasonably likely to elicit an incriminating response. Defendant was arrested on suspicion of possessing and…

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Name: In re B.M.
Case #: B277076
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 2 DCA
Division: 6
Opinion Date: 04/20/2017
  • Categories: Crimes, Crimes Against the Person, Elements of Crimes, Interrogations & Confessions, Miranda v. Arizona

Juvenile court's factual finding that a common butter knife was a deadly weapon was not wholly irreconcilable with the evidence. Appellant, a minor, attacked her sister with a metal butter knife while her sister was lying on her back in…

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Name: Robertson v. Pichon
Case #: 15-16463
Court: US Court of Appeals
District 9 Cir
Opinion Date: 03/02/2017
  • Categories: Confessions, Extraordinary Remedies, Habeas Corpus (Federal), Interrogations & Confessions, Miranda v. Arizona

State court did not unreasonably apply clearly established U.S. Supreme Court precedent by failing to suppress a suspect's statements that he made after he asked for counsel in response to a request to submit to a chemical test. Police pulled…

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Name: People v. Cuiriz
Case #: A144351
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 1 DCA
Division: 3
Opinion Date: 02/14/2017
  • Categories: Confessions, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Interrogations & Confessions, Miranda v. Arizona, Sentencing

Sentence of 27 years to life for defendant who shot her father's attacker is cruel and unusual. During defendant's nineteenth birthday party, two uninvited males arrived and beat up defendant's father. Defendant saw her father on the ground with his…

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Name: People v. Superior Court (Corbett)
Case #: B276937
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 2 DCA
Division: 7
Opinion Date: 02/14/2017
  • Categories: Conducted with Consent, Interrogations & Confessions, Miranda v. Arizona, Search & Seizure, Searches w/o Warrant

The prosecution failed to establish that evidence found during a warrantless search based on invalid consent would inevitably have been discovered. When police began interrogating Corbett, an alleged stalker, he invoked his right to remain silent. Nevertheless, they continued interrogating…

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Name: People v. Jones
Case #: B263800
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 2 DCA
Division: 7
Opinion Date: 01/19/2017
  • Categories: Areas Constitutional Law, Confessions, Due Process, Equal Protection, Interrogations & Confessions, Involuntary/Coerced, Jury Peremp/Wheeler, Trial Proceedings

Defendant was unable to establish a prima facie case of racial discrimination in jury selection even though prosecutor struck three African-American prospective jurors. Jones, a 17-year-old African-American, was tried as an adult for murder and attempted murder. During jury selection,…

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Name: People v. Bichara
Case #: B270653
Court: CA Court of Appeal
District 2 DCA
Division: 5
Opinion Date: 01/30/2017
  • Categories: Confessions, Ineff. Assist. Counsel (IAC), Interrogations & Confessions, Miranda v. Arizona, Right to Counsel

Trial counsel rendered ineffective assistance by failing to preserve issue concerning police eliciting a confession from a defendant who had invoked his right to remain silent. Police interrogated Bichara regarding a murder. During the interrogation Birchara told police that he…

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Name: United States v. Loucious
Case #: 16-10121
Court: US Court of Appeals
District 9 Cir
Opinion Date: 02/07/2017
  • Categories: Confessions, Interrogations & Confessions, Miranda v. Arizona

Although police did not inform suspect that he had the right to consult with an attorney before questioning, the district court erred by suppressing subsequent admissions pursuant to Miranda v. Arizona (1966) 384 U.S. 436. Before interrogating Loucious for a…

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