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Montejo v. Louisiana, No. 07-1529 (U.S. Supreme Court) (556 U.S. 778; 129 S.Ct. 2079) (May 26, 2009) (Justice Scalia)

Loaded on April 1, 2009 published in Punch and Jurists May 04, 2009
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, After Request for Counsel.

In a ruling that epitomizes the Supreme Court’s current conservative-versus-liberal alignment of Justices, a 5-4 majority overruled the Court’s 23-year-old holding in Michigan v. Jackson, 475 U.S. 625 (1986) and made it easier for the police and prosecutors to question suspects in custody outside the presence of their lawyers.

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