United States v. Allen Murdock

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• holding that officer’s failure to honor suspect’s invocation of his right to remain silent was “insufficient by itself to establish involuntariness”
• first quoting Schneckloth v. Bustamonte, 412 U.S. 218, 226 (1973); then quoting Culombe v. Connecticut, 367 U.S. 568, 602 (1961)
• “The detective’s failure to honor [defendant’s] Miranda right is certainly relevant to whether [defendant’s] statements were voluntary, but it is insufficient by itself to establish involuntariness.”
• “In order to introduce statements at trial—whether in its case in chief or as impeachment evidence—the government bears the burden of proving that the 14 statements were voluntary.” (citing Lego v. Twomey, 404 U.S. 477, 489 (1972))

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