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· 3/15/1851

Sims's Case

Citations

  • 61 Mass. 285

How courts have described this case

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

  • concluding that “I don’t have nothing to say” was an equivocal invo- cation
  • con- cluding that a trial court committed reversible error in not suppressing state- ments made after the defendant’s equivocal invocation when “detectives failed to clarify [the] defendant’s statement before proceeding further”
  • con- cluding that a trial court committed reversible error in not suppressing state- ments made after the defendant’s equivocal invocation when “detectives failed to clarify [the] defendant’s statement before proceeding further”

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Judges: Shaw

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