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State v. Ybarra

Citations

  • 804 P.2d 1053
  • 111 N.M. 234

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the admission of statements obtained without Miranda warnings was not harmless where the other evidence of guilt was not overwhelming
  • questioning of arrestee by nurse in officer’s presence was custodial interrogation subject to Miranda
  • questioning accused in stressful atmosphere of hospital emergency room constituted interrogation
  • interrogation was custodial where a hospital patient was placed in handcuffs by police prior to questioning
  • compulsion present in emergency room atmosphere rose above that inherent in custody itself, and police took advantage of it by subjecting the defendant to circumstances which they knew or should have known were likely to yield incriminating responses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Wilson, Sosa, Ransom, Montgomery, Baca

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