LEE

v.

UNITED STATES

Citator

Cited By

• Nelson v. State, 688 So. 2d 971 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997)
  …d 1467 (11th Cir.1992) (confession admissible despite custom official’s threat to defendant that “if you don’t cooperate with us, ten years can be a long time in jail. Anything can happen and something can happen to your family ... ”), cert. denied, 506 U.S. 964, 113 S.Ct. 436, 121 L.Ed.2d 356 (1992); Lindsey v. Smith, 820 F. 2d 1137, 1150 (11th Cir.1987) (no coercion despite fact that officers told defendant that he would be charged with capital murder unless he gave a statement). See also Milton v. Cochra…
• Almeida v. State, 687 So. 2d 37 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997)
  …nk about whether I should get a lawyer?” was an equivocal request for an attorney which precluded further questioning before the sus [*39] pect’s concerns were clarified. In United States v. Mendoza-Cecelia, 963 F. 2d 1467 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 506 U.S. 964, 113 S.Ct. 436, 121 L.Ed.2d 356 (1992), the court, quoting Towne, defined an equivocal request as “ ‘an ambiguous statement, either in the form of an assertion or a question, communicating a possible desire to exercise [the] right to have an attorne…
• United States v. Coley Quinn, 123 F.3d 1415 (11th Cir. 1997)
  …and Quinn ultimately was sentenced to a 295-month term of incarceration. “[DJiscussions of realistic penalties ... are normally insufficient to preclude free choice.” United States v. Mendoza-Cecelia, 963 F. 2d 1467, 1475 (11th Cir.), cert. denied, 506 U.S. 964, 113 S.Ct. 436, 121 L.Ed.2d 356 (1992). Regarding Kent’s discussion of Quinn’s choice to obtain counsel, the government contends that Kent “simply advised Quinn of the consequences that could flow from delaying any attempt at cooperation.” We obse…