Cruz, Adelfo Ramirez

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• concluding that the fact that appellant provided false identification to the officer indicates a 6 “consciousness of guilt” and an awareness that he needed to conceal his identity from law enforcement officials
• recognizing that “a biographical question may be deemed ‘not interrogation’ under the ‘booking’ (or ‘administrative’) exception [and] a court could decide that a particular question about biographical data was a routine administrative inquiry”
• noting that providing a false name to police is evidence of a consciousness of guilt
• noting that providing a false name to police is evidence of a consciousness of guilt
• “[Q]uestioning that seeks to elicit biographical data does not become interrogation simply because the identifying information may later aid law enforcement in conducting a criminal investigation.”
• noting that the inventory search exception is based on administrative concerns

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).