2011 Ark. App. 738 - Jackson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “First, the relinquishment of the right must have been voluntary in the sense that it was the product of a free and deliberate choice rather than intimidation, coercion, or deception. Second, the waiver must have been made with a full awareness of both the nature of the right being abandoned and the consequences of the decision to abandon it. Only if “the totality of the circumstances surrounding the interrogation” reveals both an uncoerced choice and the requisite level of comprehension may a court properly conclude that the Miranda rights have been waived.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lovelace v. State