United States v. Sheldon Serlin

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “[s]imple failure to inform the defendant that he was the subject of the investigation, or that the investigation was criminal in nature, does not amount to affirmative deceit”
• stating that a defendant seeking suppression must produce clear and convincing evidence that the agents affirmatively misled him as to the true nature of their investigation
• stating that “[s]imple failure to inform the defendant that he was the subject of the investigation, or that the investigation was criminal in nature, does not amount to affirmative deceit”
• upholding an interrogation in which IRS initially gave no warnings to subject who was not focus of investigation but provided warnings as soon as agents focused attention on subject’s actions
• “failure to inform defendant that ... the investigation was criminal in nature, does not amount to affirmative deceit unless defendant inquired about the nature of the investigation and the agent’s failure to respond was intended to mislead”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).