Constance Avaras and Apollo Investment Group, LLC v. UH-SI, LLC d/b/a Palm Beach Marriot Singer Island Beach Resort & Spa

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “[t]he statute ... was not intended to compel persons suspected of crimes to assist criminal investigators in establishing their guilt”
• stating that \[t]he statute ... was not intended to compel persons suspected of crimes to assist criminal investigators in establishing their guilt\
• “Accordingly, in applying the ‘exculpatory no’ doctrine, we balance the need for protecting the basic functions of government agencies with the concern that a criminal suspect not be forced to incriminate himself in order to avoid punishment under section 1001.”
• defendant accused of cashing income tax refund check and replacement check accused store manager of allowing another customer to cash her original refund check
• exception applies to “exculpatory denials made to an officer conducting a criminal investigation”
• “A false denial of guilt does not pervert the investigator’s basic function in the manner the statute was intended to combat, but is merely one of the ordinary obstacles confronted in a criminal investigation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).