United States v. Gary Mills

B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge.

Gary Mills, a convicted felon who was incarcerated on unrelated state charges, was suspected by New Haven police of illegally possessing a gun linked to the shooting of a police officer. One day after Mills was formally charged on a state gun offense, but before his arraignment, Mills agreed to be interviewed without counsel by detectives who were investigating the shooting. During the interview, Mills made statements linking himself to the gun. The government concedes for purposes of this appeal that this interview violated Mills’s Sixth Amendment right to…