United States v. Porteous

How courts have described this case

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

• finding questioning to be non-custodial despite the fact that “the defendants may have temporarily been unable to use their cellular phones”
• finding four or five police officers questioning three defendants not to be a custodial interrogation
• “The police officers split up and questioned the defendants separately, such that each defendant was questioned by at most two officers. There is no indication that this police-to-suspects ratio was overwhelming to the defendants.”
• “The defendants were questioned in a neutral location, a hotel parking lot.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).