Court Opinion

ID: 9459382
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 21:19:09.250529+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:36:08.636896
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KILKENNY, Senior Circuit Judge
(dissenting):
Assuming, arguendo, that Miranda warnings are required,* nevertheless, the judgment of the lower court should be affirmed. There is nothing in the record to indicate that appellant had less than the normal intelligence of an average sixteen year old boy. Since Miranda does not require “. . .a ritual of words to be recited by rote according to didactic niceties”, Coyote v. United States, 380 F.2d 305, 308 (C.A.10 1967), I would hold that the oral and written warnings, when read together, fully comply with the Miranda requirements. United States v. Hilliker, 436 F.2d 101 (C.A.9 1970), cert. denied 401 U.S. 958, 91 S.Ct. 987, 28 L.Ed.2d 242 (1971), is closely in point and supports this view.
I would affirm.

 I have grave doubts as to the validity of the assumption.