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Bobby Johnson v. North Carolina
Paid petition · Supreme Court of North Carolina, No. 57PA17 · judgment January 10, 2019
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Whether an officer violates a defendant’s constitutional privilege against self-incrimination or due process rights by (a) delivering Miranda warnings at the end of a long, uninterrupted custodial interrogation but before the defendant makes any incriminating statements and (b) timing the warnings to undermine their effectiveness.
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Whether incriminating statements that a defendant made after receiving Miranda warnings are admissible when an officer (a) delivered the warnings at the end of a long, uninterrupted custodial interrogation but before the defendant made any incriminating statements and (b) timed the warnings to undermine their effectiveness.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Brian David Boone
Alston & Bird LLP
For respondent
Derrick Charles Mertz
North Carolina Department of Justice
Case
Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Linked docket
18A969
Order
Order list, October 7, 2019 · Certiorari denied
Proceedings
- Oct 07 2019Petition DENIED.
- Jul 10 2019DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
- Jun 28 2019Waiver of right of respondent State of North Carolina to respond filed.
- Jun 10 2019Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due July 15, 2019)
- Mar 27 2019Application (18A969) granted by The Chief Justice extending the time to file until June 9, 2019.
- Mar 22 2019Application (18A969) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from April 10, 2019 to June 9, 2019, submitted to The Chief Justice.