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Ninth Circuit Rules Detective’s Persistent Questioning After Invocation of Right to Counsel Entitles California Prisoner to Habeas Relief
Loaded on Dec. 4, 2018
by Richard Resch
published in Criminal Legal News
December, 2018, page 26
Filed under:
Police Misconduct,
Arrest and Booking,
Appointment of Counsel,
Habeas Corpus.
Location:
California.
by Richard Resch
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that a California prisoner convicted of murder is entitled to habeas relief because a detective continued to interrogate him even after he clearly and repeatedly invoked his right to counsel, and the detective’s persistent unlawful badgering eventually ...
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