United States v. Alberto Ritter

How courts have described this case

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

• repeating Ingraham’s direction that “this particular use of the cruel and unusual punishment clause is to be applied sparingly” and noting that Robinson represents “the rare type of case in which the clause has been used to limit what may be made criminal”
• “The decision to hold a Franks hearing is a determination about the legal sufficiency of a set of allegations ***. This decision should be reviewed de novo.”
• absence of Miranda warnings is not dispositive of the question whether consent was voluntary
• absence of Miranda warnings is not dispositive of the question whether consent was voluntary
• “It would . . . make little sense to require that Miranda warnings . . . be given by police before requesting consent.”
• absence of Miranda warnings is not dispositive of the question whether consent was voluntary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).