Tague v. Louisiana

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a waiver was involuntary because inter alia the arresting officer did not ask the suspect if he understood the rights read to him
• rejecting presumption that a defendant understood warnings and suppressing statements when “no evidence at all was introduced to prove that petitioner knowingly and intelligently waived his rights before making the inculpatory statement”
• courts may not presume that waiver was voluntary and knowing; state must meet “heavy burden” of showing voluntary and knowing waiver
• courts must presume no waiver of constitutional right to counsel
• discussing knowing and intelligent waiver
• discussing knowing and intelligent waiver

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).