United States v. Paul C. Porter, United States v. Walter G. Baker, United States v. Frederick L. Hearn, United States v. Larry Reservitz

How courts have described this case

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• suspect invoked right to counsel when, upon being given opportunity to make a telephone call, suspect called information to get lawyer's number then called lawyer
• “Merely asking the accused whether he understood his rights does not satisfy the duties of an interrogating officer or make any statement the accused might then make admissible”
• Attempt to contact counsel by telephone in the presence of the police constituted an exercise of right to counsel, even though there was no express statement to the police that the defendant wanted an attorney present.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).