Court Opinion

ID: 9480206
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 07:41:10.537138+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:47:32.692082
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GEORGE CLIFTON EDWARDS, Jr., Senior Circuit Judge,
dissenting.
In many respects this case represents good police work. It is clear, however, that defendants were of abnormally low intelligence and that Miranda warnings were not given. Even though appellants had not been taken in custody, it is also true they had not been furnished counsel or waived same. As the district court held, the government agents should have taken further precautions to insure that Macklin and Mack understood the situation and their rights. See Henry v. Dees, 658 F.2d 406, 411 (5th Cir.1981).