Murphy v. Holland’s Empirical Analysis

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6 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions

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1. “We find support for this position in the Supreme Court’s recent opinion in Arizona v. Mauro, 481 U.S. 520 , 107 S.Ct. 1931, 1936 , 95 L.Ed.2d 458, 468 (1987), where, Justice Powell writing for the Court, explained that “ ‘[F]ar from being prohibited by the Constitution, admissions of guilt by wrongdoers, if not coerced, are inherently desirable.’ ” Justice Powell advises that in deciding whether “police conduct is interrogation, we must remember the purpose behind our decisions in Miranda and Edwards: preventing government officials from using the coercive nature of confinement to extract confessions that would not be given in an unrestrained environment.” Id. To effectuate this goal, the Court has extended the Miranda safeguards to the functional equivalent of express questioning. The phrase “functional equivalent” has been defined as “any words or action on the part of the police (other than those normally attendant to arrest and custody) that the police should know are reasonably likely to elicit an incriminating response from the suspect.” Mauro, 481 U.S. at 526-27 , 107 S.Ct. at 1935 , 95 L.Ed.2d at 466 . Justice Powell noted finally that the latter part of this definition focuses on the perceptions of the defendant rather than the intent of the police. Id.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Martin