United States v. Francis Skinner

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that use of curative or limiting instructions is within the district court’s discretion
• stating that Edwards did not preclude further questioning when defendant was released from custody and had opportunity to contact counsel
• noting that the accused \knew from his experience the previous day that he could end the interrogation by asking again to meet with an attorney\
• holding a defendant's assertion that he used excessive force in defending himself could reduce a charge from murder to voluntary manslaughter, but not to involuntary manslaughter
• no Edwards violation because defendant not in continuous custody

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).