1.23 - 9. No Right To Counsel While Committing Crime

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9. No Right to Counsel While Committing Crime

The Miranda invocation of the right to counsel must be unambiguous. Police are not required to end an interrogation or ask clarifying questions. “There is no principled reason to adopt different standards for determining when an accused has invoked the Miranda right to counsel.”74 Unambiguous invocation means an objective inquiry later. “If an ambiguous act, omission, or statement could require police to end the interrogation, police would be required to make...

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