Court Opinion

ID: 9453696
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 18:21:00.34709+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:33:45.911092
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LUMBARD, Chief Judge
(concurring) :
While I concur in Judge Feinberg’s opinion, I think it should be pointed out *976that the statements made by Knight to the city detectives in his apartment after they had gone there with him at his invitation were admissible in evidence against him. These statements were made under circumstances free from coercion, while Knight was in his own home in the presence of the woman companion who had travelled with him from California. None of the aspects of in-custody interrogation which led the Supreme Court to outlaw the use of statements made by suspects who had not been given certain warnings and therefore might not have chosen to speak willingly, are present here. Miranda v. State of Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 465, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966).
While Knight was arrested shortly after these statements were made, they were made at a time when Knight evidently believed he was only under suspicion with regard to the car he had driven from California. There was no occasion whatever to require warnings set forth in Miranda v. State of Arizona, with respect to the statements made to the police. See 384 U.S. at 456-458, 478 n. 46, 86 S.Ct. 1602.