United States Ninth Circuit

Post-arrest statements and a gun used in a shooting were properly obtained under the "public safety exception" from New York v. Quarles, 467 U.S. 649, thus Miranda warnings were not required.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/14/2002
• Decided 09/24/2002
• Published 09/24/2002

Judges

• Before HAWKINS and FISHER, Circuit Judges, and MOSKOWITZ, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ann McClintock, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Sacramento, CA, for the petitioner-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jo Graves, Senior Assistant Attorney General, John G. McLean, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, and Harry Joseph Colombo (argued), Deputy Attorney General, Sacramento, CA, for the respondents-appellees.