Vincent Coppola v. Ronald L. Powell, Etc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “[petitioner’s constitutional rights were violated by the use of his [pre-arrest] statement in the prosecutor’s case in chief’
• holding admission of a state trooper’s testimony that the defendant stated prior to arrest that “he would not talk . . . without a lawyer” during the prosecution’s case in chief violated the Fifth Amendment
• holding that the defendant invoked the privilege by saying, “Let me tell you something. I’m not one of your country bumpkins. I grew up on the streets of Providence, Rhode Island and if you think I’m going to confess to you, you’re crazy.” (quotation marks omitted)
• no harmless error where untainted conflicting testimony of three jail inmates \raise[d] serious questions of credibility\ and there were \gaps in the identification evidence\
• questioned by New Hampshire state trooper

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).