People v. Braggs

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that any evidence of a defendant’s mental or intellectual impairment is a relevant factor
• finding custody even where mentally impaired suspect was accompanied by a concerned adult who \acted as a translator of sorts and actually facilitated the police interrogation\
• finding custody even where mentally impaired suspect was accompanied by a - 13 - concerned adult who “acted as a translator of sorts and actually facilitated the police interrogation”
• clarifying “the accepted test is what a reasonable person, innocent of any crime, would have thought had he or she been in the defendant’s shoes” (emphasis added)
• stating “it is generally irrelevant that the interrogating officer subjectively viewed the individual under questioning as a suspect” unless the officer’s beliefs are “conveyed by word or deed to the individual being questioned”
• stating \it is generally irrelevant that the interrogating officer subjectively viewed the individual under questioning as a suspect\ unless the officer's beliefs are \conveyed by word or deed to the individual being questioned\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).