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221210P.pdf 04/06/2023 United States v. Anthony Harris
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 22-1210
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Jefferson City
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Loken and Colloton, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. Defendant's voluntary statements were
admissible; intoxication does not preclude a valid waiver of Miranda
rights, and defendant's intoxication did not cause his will to be
overborne; later statement to an officer concerning a stolen car, made
after defendant received his Miranda rights, was admissible because
defendant had not unequivocally invoked his right of silence; the district
court did not abuse its discretion in declining to reopen the suppression
hearing to permit defendant to introduce additional evidence on his
intoxication as the proposed evidence did not address the question of
whether defendant was so intoxicated he could not waive his Miranda
rights.