Legal Opinion
United States v. Robert Charles Goudreau
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 15, 1988No. 87-5403PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
This is an interlocutory appeal from a pretrial order suppressing a statement, not preceded by Miranda warnings, that Robert Charles Goudreau made to agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Because we conclude that Goudreau was not in custody during the interview and that the statement was voluntary, we reverse.
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FBI agents investigated Goudreau, a Bureau of Indian Affairs police officer on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation, in connection with a civil rights complaint alleging that Goudreau had used excessive force during an arrest. The interview took…
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