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Supreme Court· 6/18/1990

Pennsylvania v. Muniz

Citations

  • 496 U.S. 582
  • 110 S. Ct. 2638
  • 110 L. Ed. 2d 528
  • 1990 U.S. LEXIS 3211

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that drunk driver’s failure to respond to question asking the year of his sixth birthday is inadmissible
  • holding that a question to a DWI suspect asking him to give the date of his sixth birthday was custodial interrogation subject to Miranda
  • holding that drunk driver’s failure to respond to question asking the year of his sixth birthday is inadmissable
  • holding that “compulsion which makes a suspect or accused the source of real or physical evidence does not violate [the Fifth Amendment privilege]”
  • holding that such information in no way imputes criminal wrongdoing and, as such, is not protected by the Fifth Amendment
  • holding that the exception applied where the officer “asked only routine questions to help with the booking process” at the police station

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Judges: Brennan, Rehnquist, White, Blackmun, Stevens, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Marshall

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

Cites

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Other cases named Pennsylvania v. Muniz

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