State v. Steimel

How courts have described this case

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

• holding officer does not necessarily need to attempt to find a magistrate when time lost would risk destruction of evidence
• observing that officer’s confronting defendant with suspicions constituted a “relevant factor,” but concluding no custody because confrontation “occurred near the end of an otherwise general and casual conversation”
• observing that officer’s confronting defendant with suspicions constituted a “relevant factor,” but concluding no custody because confrontation “occurred near the end of an otherwise general and casual conversation”
• declining to address issue when “the trial court did not rule on the issue” and “resolving the issue may require additional factual findings”
• “We have previously held that confrontational questioning did not constitute 26 custody where it occurred briefly during an otherwise casual conversation.” (citation omitted)
• “We have previously held that confrontational questioning did not constitute custody where it occurred briefly during an otherwise casual conversation.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).