Collins v. Hunter Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that for purposes of appellate review, what is not in the certified record does not exist
• identifying that if a defendant gives a statement without police interrogation, we consider that statement to be voluntary and not subject to suppression
• reiterating that, “for purposes of appellate review, what is not in the certified record does not exist.”
• reiterating principle that spontaneous or “blurt out” incriminating statements made in course of small talk with authorities, even in custodial setting, are not per se subject to suppression
• reiterating principle that spontaneous or “blurt out” incriminating statements made in course of small talk with authorities, even in custodial setting, are not per se subject to suppression
• not every statement made by an individual during a police encounter constitutes an interrogation

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