United States v. Leonard David Griffin

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that ‘‘custody is more likely to exist’’ when encounter is initiated by law enforcement rather than by sus- pect
• concluding when a suspect was arrested at the end of an interview, the arrest was objective evidence weighing in favor of custody “from the inception of the encounter”
• “Questioning which occurs in the suspect’s own home may provide a margin of comfort, but ... the setting of the interrogation is not so important to the inquiry as the question of police domination of that setting.”
• “Questioning which occurs in the suspect’s own home may provide a margin of comfort, but . . . the setting of the interro- gation is not so important to the inquiry as the question of police domination of that setting.”
• ‘‘[the] indicia of custody [factors] relate to the specific police practices employed during questioning [that] tend to either mitigate or aggravate an atmosphere of custodial interrogation’’
• “The question is whether the entire context of the questioning, including such considerations as place and length of the interrogation, demonstrates that the course of the investigation was police dominated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).