Court Opinion

ID: 9854457
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:07:51.626127+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:23:05.376942
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE JOHN CONWAY HARRISON,
(dissenting).
I dissent.
To take a statement from an obviously drunk, confused and semi-literate woman of Mexican descent who had been arrested several hours before and allowed two hours of sleep and awakened and told of her widowhood violates, to say the least, the spirit if not the substances of Miranda.
As I read Miranda it holds that the mere “fact of custody” is inherently “compulsive” in its Fifth Amendment sense; that as soon as a person is deprived of his or her “freedom of action” adversary proceedings begin and the privilege protects her from questioning, routine or otherwise, which seeks to elicit a criminal or clue fact.