Jenkins v. State

317 Ga. 585

FINAL COPY S23A0534. JENKINS v. THE STATE. PETERSON, Presiding Justice. The question in this case is whether Larry Jenkins’s unequivocal statement that he would not talk to law enforcement without a lawyer was a valid invocation of his Miranda1 rights. Agreeing with the State, the trial court concluded that the statement came at a time that Jenkins was not being interrogated and at which no interrogation was imminent, and thus it was “anticipatory” and invalid under a line of precedent from several federal courts of appeals. We need not decide here whether that line of precedent is…