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183568P.pdf 04/17/2020 United States v. Jeremias Sanchez-Velasco
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 18-3568
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Cedar Rapids
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Grasz and Stras, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. Defendant was not in custody at the time he
was questions by ICE agents at the county treasurer's office; the
questioning was consistent with the Attorney General's regulations
authoring immigration officers to briefly detain a person for questioning
if they have a reasonable suspicion, base on specific, articulable facts,
that the person is an alien illegally in the U.S.; this brief detention is
not subject to the Miranda requirements; defendant's answers to questions
posed once he was in ICE custody were admissible as the questions posed to
him related to his immigration status and contemplated civil removal
proceedings; none of the questions were related to the substantive
offenses here, which involved misuse of a social security number.