Court Opinion

ID: 9430749
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:30:29.805941+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:15:52.272830
License: Public Domain

Justice Blackmun,
concurring in part and concurring in the judgment.
I join Parts I, II, III-B, and IV of the Court’s opinion and its judgment.
I refrain, however, from joining Part III-A of the opinion. Whatever may be the merits of the issue discussed there, which concerns the level of the State’s burden of proof in showing that respondent had waived his rights under Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U. S. 436 (1966), that issue was neither raised nor briefed by the parties, and, in my view, it is not necessary to the decision.