Commonwealth v. Guerrero

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant should have been Mirandized prior to the booking officer asking his employment status where the content of defendant's answer was used as incriminating evidence at trial
• upholding cocaine trafficking convictions where there was a sparsely furnished barricaded apartment, purchaser would pass money under the door, and within minutes a small plastic baggie containing cocaine was passed back
• questions relating to occupation and employment are not pertinent to custodial responsibilities of police
• Miranda rights not required before asking routine booking questions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).