United States v. Luis Cristobal

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• finding that the suspect knowingly and intelligently waived his rights where evidence showed that he had been Mirandized on at least one previous occasion
• finding the defendant’s waiver of his Miranda rights was voluntary, despite his use of pain killers, and that police did not exploit defendant’s weakened state
• “[A] deficient mental condition . . . is not, without more, enough to render a waiver involuntary.”
• “[A] deficient mental condition . . . is not, without more, enough to render a waiver involuntary.”
• “The evidence here does not show that law enforcement officials exploited [the suspect]’s weakened condition with coercive tactics.”
• statements voluntary despite medical treatment for serious injuries and treatment with narcotic painkillers where defendant was coherent and no evidence demonstrated that he was incapable of making an informed decision

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).