United States v. Dwight Ernest Dougall

GEE, Circuit Judge:

We are asked to hold that hair samples voluntarily provided and a confession voluntarily given must both be suppressed because in the course of obtaining them investigating agents asked routine booking questions and requested the samples after the defendant had invoked the fifth amendment and requested counsel and because, after the defendant reinitiated the conversation and reinvoked his rights, investigating agents remained in the room silently a brief time, after which the defendant again spoke and later confessed. We decline to do so, affirming the district court’s…