United States Ninth Circuit

The district court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress post-arrest statements, where: 1) a Border Patrol agent's reading of an I-214 Form did not constitute a re-initiation of interrogation in violation of Miranda v. Arizona, where the agent made no effort to question the defendant or secure a waiver of her rights; and 2) the combination of circumstances, re-advising the defendant of her Miranda rights, processing drugs seized from her vehicle in her presence, and taking her photograph standing behind the seized drugs, was not an interrogation or its functional equivalent.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/03/2013
• Published 06/03/2013

Judges

• NGUYEN

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel