Aluma Construction Corporation v. Municipio De Vieques

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that police questions that would otherwise be part of “a -11- routine, basic identification inquiry” become interrogation if the officer is reasonably aware that the information sought “is directly relevant to the substantive offense”
• concluding where a suspect “was detained, handcuffed, and patted down while [a detective] questioned him[,]” the suspect was in custody “because a reasonable person in [his] position would not have felt free to end the questioning and leave”
• analogizing presence in an apartment to presence in a car and finding it reasonable for an officer \to infer [the individual] was part of a common enterprise\
• finding custody where officers handcuffed the defendant and “[n]o one told [him] he was free to leave or to abstain from answering questions”
• “Pressing the alarm button on the key fob was a way to identii the car and did not tell the officers anything about the fob’s code or the car’s contents.”
• \A question is an interrogation if it is reasonably likely to elicit incriminating information.\ (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).