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Commonwealth v. Whitehead

Citations

  • 629 A.2d 142
  • 427 Pa. Super. 362
  • 1993 Pa. Super. LEXIS 2479

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  • 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).

Judges: Wieand, Popovich, Hester

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