Supreme Court of Florida· 10/23/2003

Owen v. State

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862 So. 2d 687
2003 WL 22410333

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holding that “I don't want to talk about it” and “I'd rather not talk about it” were equivocal invocations of right to silence and therefore officers had no duty to terminate questioning or limit themselves to asking only clarifying questions
holding appellant's statements \I don't want to talk about it\ and \I'd rather not talk about it\ were ambiguous in the context of police officer's specific questioning related to details of a homicide
holding appellant’s statements “I don’t want to talk about it” and “I’d rather not talk about it” were ambiguous in the context of police officer’s specific questioning related to details of a homicide
listing the mitigating factors that the trial court considered, one of which was that “the defendant suffered from organic brain damage”
\I don't want to talk about it\ and \I'd rather not talk about it\ are not unequivocal invocations of right to silence
“I don’t want to talk about it” and “I’d rather not talk about it” held to be equivocal invocations of right to silence

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