CrimPro Final Flashcards
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Voluntariness
Cases:
- Brown: Physical violence
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Spano: psychological coercion
factors include: - length of interrogation
- Age
- Education
- Emotional stability
- Lewis: Shocks the conscious
- Lynum: Deception
- Connelly: Mental Illness
- No fruits can be admitted
Testimonial Requirement
Testimonial = Any comunication or assertion
Schmerber: DNA, fingerprints, and blood are NOT testimonial
Miranda
4 Rights:
1. Silence
2. Statements can be used against you
3. Counsel
4. Counsel will be provided
Administering Miranda
- Does not need to be verbatim (Duckworth)
- Suspect must understand his rights (Butler)
Is there custody?
Custody = Arrest or significant deprivation of freeedom (Berkemer)
* Objective test but age can be taken into account
A Terry stop is not custody
Did the officers interrogate?
Interrogation = Questioning or the functional equivalent (Miranda)
Any words or actions by the officer reasonably likely to elicit an incriminating response (Innis)
Did the supect invoke the right to silence?
Must be unambiguously invoked (Thompkins)
Subsequent Questioning
Break in custody + enough time passed then officers can remirandize (Mosley and Seibert)
Non-Mirandized then Mirandized statements
Admissible if not done in bad faith by the officers (Elstad)
Right to an attorney
Must be unambiguously invoked (Thompkins)
Failure to request does not waive the right
No right to a station lawyer
Subsequent Interrogation after counsel is invoked
Officers cannot reinitiate (Edwards)
Unaware officers can’t either (Roberson)
14-day rule: Officers cannot reinitiate until after 14 days of the break in custody (Shatzer)
Miranda Waiver of silence
State has the burden of proof
Waiver of silence:
1. Can’t be waived through silence alone (Butler)
2. Can be waived through course of conduct (Butler)
3. Totality of the circumstances
Miranda waiver of counsel
Must be knowing and voluntary (Butler)
Miranda Exceptions
Public Safety (Quarles)
Booking Exception (Muniz)
Immunity (Kastigar & Hubbell)
Undercover Agents (Perkins)
Impeachment (Harris)
Public Safety (Quarles)
Circumstances known to the officer that pose a reasonable danger to him or the public
Statemements + physical evidence are admissible
Booking Exception (Muniz)
Bio Data: Name, date, birth, age, address, weight
Slurred speech and physical symptoms are admissible
Immunity (Kastigar & Hubbell)
Testimony and derived evidence cannot be used against suspect
Exceptions to the immunity exception
- Wholly independent source
- Inevitable discovery
- business records
- Compliance involves producing testimonial and incriminating information
Undercover Agents (Perkins)
No custody, so no Miranda needed
Consequences of Miranda Violtions
Testimony is supressed, but
- Can be used to impeach (Harris)
- Physical evidence is admissible (Patane)
- Identity of a witness is admissible (Tucker)
Sixth Amendment
Right to counsel in criminal proceedings (Massiah)
Initiation of Judicial Proceedings
Initiation: Charges, indictment, arraignment, and preliminary hearing (Kirby)
Critical Stage
- Plea bargaining
- Bail hearing
- line-up ID
Offense Specific
McNeil: Government may elicit info about other crimes that have not been charged yet
Closely related info may also be elicited (Robbery & murder example)