United States v. Corey

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO SUPPRESS POST-ARREST STATEMENTS

FEDERICO A. MORENO, Chief Judge.

The defendant seeks to suppress statements made by him without benefit of the *1343Miranda warnings during a custodial interrogation after being arrested for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The Court finds that the arresting officer’s question of what was he doing in the area was not simply a biographical question subject to the booking exception but a question that was reasonably likely to elicit an incriminating response. Accordingly, the defendant’s post-arrest response, while handcuffed in the…