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· 9/19/2007

United States v. Thongsophaporn

Citations

  • 503 F.3d 51
  • 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 22331
  • 2007 WL 2726140

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a defendant freely initiated further communications with law enforcement officer by asking “what was going on,” notwithstanding his initial statement that he did not wish to answer any questions
  • applying totality of circumstances test, including second set of rights warnings as factor
  • “Section 1983, of course, does not apply to allegedly unlawful acts of federal officers.”
  • “what is going on?” same
  • asking \what was going on[?]\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Boudin, Howard, Saylor

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