337 So. 2d 451 - State v. Sockwell’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1998
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Vale v. Louisiana · United States v. Sealy, Inc. · State v. Hall · 315 So. 2d 727 - State v. Monk
Most-quoted passages
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“During the early morning hours of August 4, 1975, Adrien Logan was robbed of $29.00 at gunpoint. He knew his assailant and immediately reported the incident to the police by telephone. As a result, a description of Sockwell and the fact that he was wanted was broadcast over police radio. Officer Kenny Maes had been stationed in the neighborhood for several years and knew Sockwell. Shortly after the notice was broadcast, he recognized Sockwell walking alone in the 7600 block of Maple Street; and, in company with Officer Irwin Breaux, Officer Maes arrested him. Sockwell was first read his Miranda rights by the arresting officers, but refused to sign the rights of arrestee form and refused to speak; therefore, he was not interrogated. The arresting officers reported over police radio that Sockwell had been arrested, and they drove to the corner of Carrollton and Oak with Sockwell in the police car. Shortly thereafter Officers Mel Garrett and Jim Hall drove up in a second police car with Adrien Logan, the victim of the armed robbery. Logan went over to the police car where Sockwell was sitting, looked in, saw Sockwell and declared, “That’s the man who held me up.” Sock-well retorted, “Why don’t you tell them you owed me money. You owed me $20.00,” or words to that effect. Logan then asked Sockwell, “Where’s my wallet?”; and Officer Garrett echoed “Where’s his wallet?” Sockwell replied, “I threw it away.” ... [T]he Miranda decision does not apply to volunteered statements, and cer”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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