United States Fifth Circuit

Grant of defendant's motion to suppress statements she made to federal investigators in a perjury case, pursuant to a claim that agents' tactic of obtaining inculpatory statements was designed to bypass Miranda, is reversed where the statements were not obtained in violation of Miranda, but even if they were, a two year lapse between unwarned statements and a third, warned statement was sufficient to render Miranda warnings effective and the third statement voluntary.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/30/2006
• Published 08/30/2006

Judges

• CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:, Before SMITH and STEWART, Circuit Judges, and CRANE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• M. Patricia Jones, Asst. U.S. Atty. (argued), Baton Rouge, LA, for U.S., James Phillip Manasseh (argued), Manasseh, Gill, Joubert & Rothkamm, Baton Rouge, LA, for Courtney.