Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Houle v. Allstate Insurance
Houle v. Allstate Ins., 507 U.S. 995 (1993)
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1993-03-22
- Topic
- commercial
How later courts describe this case
- despite having mild mental retardation and intelligence quotient of only 70, circumstances surrounding confession demonstrated that defendant possessed “the requisite level of comprehension” to waive his Miranda rights
- testimony by officer that defendant did not make a statement to him at the time of his arrest not a comment on defendant's post-arrest silence because the testimony was `"merely preliminary to the admission into evidence of [Mathenia's] videotaped statement"'
- testimony by officer that defendant did not make a statement to him at the time of his arrest not a comment on defendant's post-arrest *Page 1273 silence because the testimony was " 'merely preliminary to the admission into evidence of [Mathenia's] videotaped statement' "
Citator
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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.