State v. Wintker

How courts have described this case

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• holding that officer’s question as to whether suspect owned suitcase containing contraband was aimed at establishing guilt when officer had already eliminated another likely owner and suspect was in custody
• holding that defendant was in custody for Miranda purposes when she was involuntarily confined in locked patrol car because, although not occurring in a police station, the defendant’s interrogation while so confined was equally isolated and police-dominated
• “If the police take a suspect into custody and ask questions without informing the person of his Miranda rights, the responses cannot be introduced into evidence to establish his guilt.”
• although told she was not under arrest, suspect was in custody for Miranda purposes when she was separated from other passengers, confined to the back of a locked patrol car, observed a police dog and his handler come to the scene and was questioned about matters aimed at establishing her guilt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).