Legal Opinion
Morales v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided January 13, 2005No. 99-CM-91PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:
Police came to the home of Berta Morales, a Spanish-speaking immigrant from El Salvador, to question her about injuries her twelve-year-old son had sustained. After Morales admitted that she had hit her son with a belt, she was arrested. Her inculpatory statements to the police were introduced in evidence against her at trial as part of the prosecution’s case-in-chief, and she was found guilty of simple assault. Morales now appeals the trial court’s denial of her pretrial motion to suppress her statements. She claims that the police violated her rights under the…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- California v. BehelerSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
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