United States v. Luna-Encinas

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• concluding that the defendant was not in custody in part because the officers “expressly stated at the outset that [the defendant] was not a suspect”
• holding brandishing of weapons and brief control of the petitioner during the search was insufficient to constitute custody under Miranda
• concluding defendant was not in custody despite officers first encountering him with their guns drawn in a protective posture when entering the property
• explaining that a court must consider whether the police encounter involved a “highly intrusive coercive atmosphere that may require warnings even before a formal arrest is made”
• no custody where defendant told to sit down outside while house was secured and later was taken to front of house and told to sit and not speak
• “[W]e are much less likely to find the circumstances custodial when the interrogation occurs in familiar or at least neutral surroundings, such as the suspect’s home.” (quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).