Wayne Desire v. Attorney General of California

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the police wrongly initiated contact where the officer overheard a conversation between the suspect and his co-defendant and in response, asked the suspect whether he “wanted to talk about anything”
• holding Edwards violation not cured by reading of Miranda rights before defendant confessed
• holding Edwards violation not cured by reading of Miranda rights before defendant confessed
• Fifth Amendment error harmless only where the state “‘has proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the error complained of did not contribute to the verdict obtained’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).