Ex Parte Cothren

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the phrase “I think I want to talk to an attorney” was not an unequivocal request for an attorney because the “use of the word ‘think’ could have led [the interrogating officer] to conclude that [the suspect] was not certain as to what he should do”
• defendant’s statement ‘‘ ‘I think I want to talk to an attorney before I answer that’ . . . is capable of equally plausible, differing interpretations and, there- fore . . . is equivocal’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).