United States v. Jessie Oliver and Gregory Cooper

How courts have described this case

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• holding a district court did not abuse its discretion where a 6 defendant gave responsive answers throughout the proceedings that “evidenced no confusion or 7 lack of understanding”
• finding that a reasonable person might have made untrue, self-inculpatory statements while in FBI custody, in order to mitigate a long prison sentence for himself and avoid criminal prosecution of his son
• upholding refusal to reopen a suppression hearing because, among other things, defendant failed to offer \new evidence of material significance\
• finding of competence upheld because judge had substantial opportunity to observe and question defendant
• conviction reversed because of admission of co-defendant’s post-conspiracy statement, made in police custody, which specifically accused defendant
• trial judge “justifiably relied on his extended observations of [the defendant] in deciding that he had sufficient mental capacity to stand trial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).