Experimental. Doctrines is a new Annlex feature, starting with four areas: Self-incrimination, Brady, Terry and Miranda. Each page collects what courts have said about a leading case, quoted from the opinions that cite it. Annlex Chat uses these collections to help find relevant cases; what a case holds still comes from its opinion. We'd like to hear what's useful, missing or wrong: Send feedback
Police nondisclosure of attorney's attempted contact does not invalidate a Miranda waiver
Leading case
Moran v. Burbine, 475 U.S. 412 (1986)
How courts have described it
holding that courts must consider the “totality of the circumstances” in determining whether a defendant’s waiver of his right to counsel was voluntarily (quotation omitted)
Paul Glen Everett v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, 779 F.3d 1212 (11th Cir. 2015)
ruling that defendant had voluntarily confessed where he, “and not the police, ... spontaneously initiated the conversation that led to the ... confession”
Belton v. Blaisdell, 559 F. Supp. 2d 128 (D.N.H. 2008)
ruling that defendant had voluntarily confessed where h e , “and not the police, . . . spontaneously initiated the conversation that led to the . . . confession”
Belton v. Warden, 2008 DNH 070 (D.N.H. 2008)
holding that defendant’s waiver was knowing and intelligent even when police withheld information from defendant that his attorney sought to consult with him
United States v. Nguyen, 313 F. Supp. 2d 579 (E.D. Va. 2004)
holding that police do not have to inform a criminal defendant that an attorney is waiting to speak to them in order to obtain a valid waiver of fifth amendment rights
Relsolelo v. Fisk, 760 N.E.2d 963 (Ill. 2001)
holding that inflating evidence of the defendant’s guilt did not interfere with the defendant’s choice of whether to confess
Bryan Arriaga v. State (Tex. App. 2019)
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