Legal Opinion

United States v. Holmes

District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Decided December 12, 1977No. 11084PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

KERN, Associate Judge:

This is a government appeal from the trial court’s suppression, after taking testimony and hearing argument before trial, of certain incriminating statements made by appellee about two pending and unsolved District of Columbia homicides while he was undergoing interrogation by police in Maryland about a murder committed earlier that day in Prince George’s County.

The record reflects, and the trial court so found, that the disappearance of a child from a County elementary school on the morning of November 27, 1973, set off a wide-spread search by Maryland police; they…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Schneckloth v. BustamonteSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
  3. District of Columbia v. PerryDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1966
  4. Boddie v. StateCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1969

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Jackson v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1979
  2. Commonwealth v. SadvariSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2000
  3. People v. GalanIllinois Supreme Court · 2008
  4. Bridges v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1978
  5. Outlaw v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 2002

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