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Supreme Court· 6/16/2011

J. D. B. v. North Carolina

Citations

  • 180 L. Ed. 2d 310
  • 2011 U.S. LEXIS 4557
  • 131 S. Ct. 2394
  • 564 U.S. 261

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that courts should consider a youth’s age in determining a Fifth Amendment Miranda issue
  • holding that neither officers nor courts may ignore “the effect of objective circumstances that, by their nature, are specific to children”
  • holding that child’s age is relevant, although not necessarily determinative, in as sessing whether a child is in custody
  • holding that neither officers nor courts may ignore “the effect of objective circumstances that, by their nature, are specific to children”
  • holding that \the age of a child subjected to police questioning is relevant to the custody analysis of Miranda \
  • holding that courts should consider a youth’s age in deter- mining a Fifth Amendment Miranda issue

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Judges: Alito, Breyer, Ginsburg, Kagan, Kennedy, Roberts, Scalia, Sotomayor, Thomas

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352 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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