United States v. Scottie Ray Hurst

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• holding that fact-finding on the record is not required when the defendant failed to object and “did not expressly call [the issue] to the court’s attention during the sentencing hearing”
• holding that “the mere statement by [a law-enforcement official] that ‘we’ve got good information on you,’ viewed in context, contains no compulsive element suggesting a Fifth Amendment violation under the circumstances.”
• explaining that in reviewing the denial of a suppression motion, the court reviews factual findings for clear error
• noting that “[c]redibility determinations are integral” to determining “whether a defendant obstructed or attempted to obstruct justice”
• holding defendant’s “refusal to answer a question about stolen firearms” was not an unequivocal invocation where he said at the beginning of the interview that “he was willing to answer only specific questions”
• sustaining stop where suspect’s car was described as “a Ford Thunderbird containing two persons” and defendant’s car was “a Mercury Cougar containing three persons”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).