United States v. James L. Hatten

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[t]he protections afforded by Miranda are only triggered when an individual ‘is both in custody and being interrogated’ ”
• recognizing that “[hjidden guns, even badly hidden guns, are by their nature incriminating,” and concluding that the warrantless seizure of a gun from defendant’s car was justified under the plain view doctrine
• recognizing that “[h]idden guns, even badly hidden guns, are by their nature incriminating,” and concluding that the warrantless seizure of a gun from defendant’s car was justified under the plain view doctrine
• holding incriminating nature of items is immediately apparent if officer has probable cause to associate it with criminal activity
• \The Miranda protections are triggered only when a defendant is both in custody and being interrogated.\
• “[A] person who parks a car—which necessarily has transparent windows—on private property does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the visible interior of his car.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).