United States v. Michael Joseph Brown

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a defendant may commit involuntary manslaughter “if he acts in self-defense but is criminally negligent in doing so”
• holding suspect’s contradictory answers on Miranda waiver form that he would answer questions without an attorney and that he wanted to talk to a lawyer to be ambiguous
• “The district court erred in taking the mens rea issue from the jury by refusing to instruct on involuntary manslaughter.”
• applying Danis in prewaiver situation
• applying Davis in pre-waiver situation
• applying Davis to ambiguous initial waiver

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).