Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. v. Wells

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 inmate “was not an agent of the police” and that, balancing all three Brown factors, the defendant’s confession to a fellow inmate “was not the product of police exploitation of any prior illegality but was a totally unexpected voluntary admission by the defendant”
• purpose of continued detention was not “to acquire a totally unexpected, voluntary admission by the defendant to his friend Allen”
• “[a] summary request such as this one does not comply with our rules of practice”
• defendant’s “summary request” contained no facts at all

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).