State v. Dumas

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that \'Can Iget a lawyer?'\ may be an unequivocal request for counsel but \'Do Ineed a lawyer?'\ is a request for advice
• holding that the phrase \can I get a lawyer\ amounted to a colloquial request
• holding that the phrase \can I get a lawyer\ amounted to a colloquial request
• stating that the question of whether a suspect's words could be \reasonably understood as a request for counsel is a mixed question of law and fact\
• explaining “Can I get a lawyer?” may be unequivocal request for counsel unlike “Do I need a lawyer?,” which is request for advice
• refusing to extend broader custodial interrogation and self-incrimination rights under the Rhode Island Constitution to persons than those guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Bido
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2008-01-07· cited 119×
• Commonwealth v. Contos
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2001-09-04· cited 42×
• State v. Turner
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2010-03-19· cited 32×
• State v. Torres
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2002-01-10· cited 31×
• State v. Jimenez
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2011-12-14· cited 25×
• State v. Mlyniec
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2011-03-07· cited 23×
• State v. Robinson
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2010-03-12· cited 20×
• State v. Girard
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2002-05-28· cited 15×
• Hilliard v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2004-08-31· cited 9×
• State v. Gonzalez
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2010-01-13· cited 7×
• State v. Taoussi
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2009-06-30· cited 7×
• Jahmahree Daniel v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-03-26· cited 7×
• State v. Dumas
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2003-11-25· cited 4×
• State v. Paul
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2002-02-28· cited 1×
• Davis, Irving Alvin
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-06-13
• State of Tennessee v. Blake Edward Childress
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2015-11-25
• State v. Dumas, P1/1996-0235a (2001)
  Superior Court of Rhode Island· 2001-05-07
• State of Tennessee v. Edward Joseph Benesch, II
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2017-08-25
• State v. Daniel J. H. Bartelt
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 2018-02-20
• Commonwealth v. Cura
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2010-08-25

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Ornelas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-10· cited 7,197×
• Edwards v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-22· cited 6,931×
• Davis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-24· cited 2,777×
• North Carolina v. Butler
  Supreme Court· 1979-04-24· cited 2,172×
• Miller v. Fenton
  Supreme Court· 1985-12-03· cited 1,743×
• State v. Hoey
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1994-09-22· cited 163×
• David Diaz v. Daniel Senkowski, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility
  Second Circuit· 1996-02-02· cited 76×
• State v. Campbell
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1997-03-20· cited 54×
• State v. Nardolillo
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1997-07-17· cited 28×
• State v. Page
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1998-04-08· cited 25×