United States v. Carlos Albverto Prieto

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to adopt a bright-line rule that statements made to the police after arrest are “automatically and necessarily contaminated by a motive to fabricate in order to curry favor with the government”
• declining to adopt a bright-line rule that statements made to the police after arrest are “automatically and necessarily contaminated by a motive to fabricate in order to curry favor with the government”
• “For [an error] to be ‘plain,’ [it] must . . . have been clear under the law at the time the error was made.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).