363 Pa. Super. 562 - Commonwealth v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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1. “[Appellant] said to the police that he wanted to talk about and make a statement regarding the crimes under investigation. Having said this, he was given a form on which were enumerated his rights under Miranda . Two questions to be answered at the bottom of the form contained a waiver proviso. To the first question, “Do you understand each of these rights I have explained to you,” [appellant] answered by writing the word, “yes” and his initials thereafter. To the second question, “Having these rights in mind do you wish to talk to us now?”, [appellant] wrote “no”. At trial the police officers testified that they were baffled by the written “no” answer in light of [appellant’s] oral statement immediately prior thereto that he wanted to make a statement regarding the crimes under investigation. As a result, they asked why he wrote “no” to the second question and [appellant] answered that he meant, “I don’t want an attorney.” After this exchange, the [appellant] wrote the word “yes” to this second question and his initials thereafter in substitution of the word “no”. [Appellant] then made his oral statement regarding the crimes involved in this case which the officers reduced to writing. The [appellant] signed the statement and initialed its pages.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 373 Pa. Super. 23 - Commonwealth v. Waggoner