Jack Stanley Towne v. Leonard Dugger, Bob Butterworth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant's question to interrogating officer as to whether he (the defendant) needed a lawyer was an equivocal request for counsel
• “because [defendant] made an equivocal request for an attorney that was never clarified, and [defendant] did not initiate further interrogation, the confession was obtained in violation of his Fifth Amendment rights.”
• “because [defendant] made an equivocal request for an attorney that was never clarified, and [defendant] did not initiate further interrogation, the confession was obtained in violation of his Fifth Amendment rights.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).