State v. Leyva’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “approach offers a better means of dealing with equivocal or ambiguous requests to terminate interrogation. Consistent with Justice Souter, I would hold that when a suspect makes an equivocal or ambiguous invocation of his or her Miranda rights, [11] all questioning must cease except for those questions designed to clarify the suspect's equivocal statements. Moreover, I believe that pursuant to article I, section 9 of the Florida Constitution, we are not bound by the decision in Davis but are free to give the broader protection offered by the”

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