Commonwealth v. Whitehead

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that officer was required to provide Miranda warnings to person while lying on a hospital gurney within the confines of a hospital when he asked questions designed to obtain incriminating statements
• treating the finding that the defendant was in custody requiring Miranda warning as a question of law upon review
• treating the finding that the defendant was in custody requiring Miranda warning as a question of law upon review
• defendant was in custody when police questioned him in hospital while he was on gurney receiving care
• defendant ‘‘was not freely capable of leaving and was fearful of not cooperating’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).