Terry Lynn Wilson v. Greg Coon, Sheriff of Grundy County, Missouri, Trenton, Missouri

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• holding that reasonable person would perceive physical restraint by ambulance personnel as imposed only for medical examination, not police interrogation
• reviewing a habeas corpus petition for relief from a conviction under Missouri state law
• Miranda might apply even if police officer questions suspect in inherently coercive situation created by ambulance attendants rather than law enforcement officers
• detention for medical examination is not situation that reasonable person would find inherently coercive in the sense required by Miranda
• state trooper’s statement that he “was trying to assist the ambulance personnel” did not imply that detention was “police-dominated, inherently coercive, or tantamount to a formal arrest”
• “... the bare fact of physical restraint does not itself invoke the Miranda protections. The Supreme Court has recognized that a restraint on freedom of action does not ipso facto create a situation in which Miranda warnings are necessary.”

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