Dorsey v. United States

Hours into his interrogation by police during the night of May 7-8, 2005, appellant Dorsey invoked his Fifth Amendment rights to counsel and to remain silent, in words as unambiguous as imaginable: “I want to talk — I need to talk to a lawyer now” and “I don’t want to talk no more. I’m not saying nothing else.” It is shocking, this many years after Miranda,1 that, *1207without missing a beat, the detective who heard him make those unequivocal statements continued questioning him and urging him to incriminate himself. Thereafter, for the rest of the night, Mr. Dorsey remained in the interrogation…