Riddick v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. “We are asked to reverse this conviction because of the prejudice to appellant resulting from the admission of appellant’s conversation with the police officer at the time of arrest. But it was the defense who first sought to get these conversations into evidence .... In Harling we recognized that there are limitations upon the use by the prosecution of admissions obtained from a juvenile by interrogation during police detention prior to waiver of jurisdiction by the Juvenile Court. But we do not read Harling , even if it be applicable to the circumstances here involved, as prohibiting the defense from using, or inviting the use, of conversations with the police, which it believes may be helpful in establishing innocence. If its expectations in this regard are not realized, that is surely no ground for reversing the personally disappointing result of conviction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 72 Wash. 2d 904 - State v. Kramer