State v. JAVIER M.’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 district · 140 state decisions

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1. “When a motorist is pulled over for a traffic stop, the motorist is subject only to an investigatory detention because the stop is presumptively temporary and brief. The motorist expects that he will only be obliged to spend a short period of time answering questions and then be allowed to continue on his way. The temporariness of such a stop is different from a station house interrogation which is prolonged, and in which the detainee often is aware that questioning will continue until he provides his interrogators the answers they seek. Moreover, a traffic stop is typically public and therefore reduces the ability of an unscrupulous policeman to use illegitimate means to elicit self-incriminating statements. Because the atmosphere surrounding such investigatory detentions is not so inherently coercive that the detainee feels compelled to speak, persons temporarily detained pursuant to such stops are not in custody for the purposes of Miranda.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Filemon V. · State v. Snell

2. “A. A child subject to the provisions of the Delinquency Act is entitled to the same basic rights as an adult, except as otherwise provided in the Children's Code, including rights provided by the Delinquency Act, except as otherwise provided in the Children's Code [NMSA 1978, §§ 32A-1-1 to -21 (1993, as amended through 2009)]. . . . . C. No person subject to the provisions of the Delinquency Act who is alleged or suspected of being a delinquent child shall be interrogated or questioned without first advising the child of the child's constitutional rights and securing a knowing, intelligent and voluntary waiver. D. Before any statement or confession may be introduced at a trial or hearing when a child is alleged to be a delinquent child, the state shall prove that the statement or confession offered in evidence was elicited only after a knowing, intelligent and voluntary waiver of the child's constitutional rights was obtained.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Filemon V. · State v. CANDACE S.

3. “[a] statute must be construed so that no part of the statute is rendered surplusage or superfluous”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Roeper · State v. Padilla