Wednesday, September 12, 2007

6th. Circuit Court of Appeals death sentence writ of habeas corpus

The 6th. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of its district court, granting a defendant a conditional writ of habeas corpus yesterday in concluding that the defendant didn’t “knowingly & intelligently waive his Miranda rights” when he was arrested back in 1992., citing Fare v. Michael C. and a need to “inquire into the totality of the circumstances surrounding the interrogation” of a suspect in its decision.

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