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· 10/8/1985

United States v. Gerardo Valencia

Citations

  • 773 F.2d 1037
  • 1985 U.S. App. LEXIS 23492

How courts have described this case

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

  • declining to sign a Miranda waiver form is equivalent to an assertion of the right to silence
  • use as evidence of defendant’s refusal to sign a Miranda waiver form violates his due process rights, where he subsequently made only exculpatory or innocuous statements

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Judges: Fletcher, Boochever, Norris

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