In re the Claim of Starich

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• finding it \utter sophistry\ to suggest that person who had just made an incriminating statement concerning the crime officers were investigating would feel she was free to leave
• finding it “utter sophistry” to suggest that person who had just made an incriminating statement concerning the crime officers were investigating would feel she was free to leave
• finding custody after defendant's statement the she felt like she \had to kill him\ because the victim, her husband, was abusive and she felt she could not divorce him
• “utter sophistry” to suggest that defendant who confessed to killing would feel free to leave
• “[I]t is utter sophistry to suggest that a person in defendant’s position, having made such an incriminating statement to police officers concerning the very homicide they were investigating, would feel that she was not under arrest and was free to leave.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).