Ancira v. State

How courts have described this case

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• holding that potential for compulsion existed when an armed officer interviewed a suspect who was detained inside a police vehicle
• “The obvious purpose of the agents interrogating him was to elicit an incriminating statement for ‘the investigation was no longer a general inquiry into an unsolved crime’ but had begun ‘to focus on a particular suspect’[.]”
• “The questioning of appellant by the officer in the police vehicle cannot be characterized as a general investigation into an unsolved crime, nor was the questioning made under circumstances to bring it within the ambit of general on-the-scene investigatory process.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).