United States v. Lafi Khalil, Gazi Ibrahim Abu Mezer

How courts have described this case

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• deferring to district court’s voluntariness finding even though circumstances surrounding confession might have supported contrary inference
• stating Blockburger test required only when “statutes themselves do not make the legislature’s intent explicit”
• upholding district court’s voluntariness finding where, although defendant had been shot, was in pain, and in hospital awaiting surgery, he was alert and responsive to agents’ questions when making challenged statements
• upholding district court's voluntariness finding where, although defendant had been shot, was in pain, and in hospital awaiting surgery, he was alert and responsive to agents’ questions when making challenged statements
• finding statements knowing and voluntary although suspect was in the hospital for surgery at time of questioning because he “was alert and mentally competent at the time of the questioning” despite being in pain
• “[T]he first step in the . . . analysis is to determine whether . . . Congress intended that each violation be a separate offense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).