Ronald Dale Windsor v. United States

AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:

In this criminal case the question for decision is whether the circumstances required the giving of the Miranda warnings by Government agents to safeguard defendant’s Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination by the presence of counsel during interrogation, before obtaining an oral and later a written incriminating statement from defendant. Both confessions were received in evidence at the trial, over appellant’s objection, and he was convicted of transporting a stolen motor vehicle in interstate commerce (18 U.S.C. § 2312). 1

On June 14, 1966 — one day…