State v. McCorkendale

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the defendant’s statement “[c]an’t we wait till tomorrow” was an “equivocal” invocation of the right to remain silent
• referring to Elstad and holding that “fruit of the poisonous tree” doctrine did not apply to require suppression of post -Miranda statements where defendant had made pre-Miranda statements
• declining to find error, in part because prosecutor’s challenged comment was not appeal to render justice to victim
• finding “So that’s all I [got] to say” could be “interpreted as a statement that he had finished his explanation of the matter”
• setting forth test for alleged prosecutorial misconduct where defendant has failed to object
• Mental condition is a factor to be considered in determining the voluntariness of a confession.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).