United States v. Pedro Montana

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that observations of defendant “pac[ing] back and forth . . . and attempt[ing] to peer through [a car’s] darkened windows” supported “probable cause to believe that [he] was a knowing participant in [a planned] drug pickup”
• functional equivalent of interrogation to tell suspect that any cooperation would be brought to attention of assistant United States attorney
• officer’s statement to suspect that cooperation would be brought to attention of United States Attorney constituted interrogation
• defendant’s silence in face of all questioning, including booking questions, was sufficient to invoke right to remain silent
• “The circumstances of the [earlier] impermissible interrogation ... were sufficiently remote from the questioning that followed the volunteered comment in the hearing room to remove the possibility that this episode rendered Montana’s waiver involuntary.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).