Legal Opinion
J. D. B. v. North Carolina
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 16, 2011No. 09-11121PublishedCited by 415 opinions
1Opinion of the Court 1
OPINION OF THE COURT
[564 U.S. 264]
2Opinion of the Court · SotomayorJustice Sotomayor
This case presents the question whether the age of a child subjected to police questioning is relevant to the custody analysis of Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S. Ct. 1602, 16 L. Ed. 2d 694 (1966). It is beyond dispute that children will often feel bound to submit to police questioning when an adult in the same circumstances
[564 U.S. 265]
would feel free to leave. Seeing no reason for police officers or courts to blind themselves to that *319commonsense reality, we hold that a child’s age properly informs the Miranda custody analysis.
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3Cases cited22 opinions
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Gall v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 2007
- Schneckloth v. BustamonteSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Berkemer v. McCartySupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Yarborough v. AlvaradoSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
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4Cited by415 opinions
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