2842/09 - Maryland Courts

Corporal Bachtell and myself cut [appellant] off
and said, AWe can talk to you as much as you
want to talk to us, but, in fact, we have to, you
know, we have to advise you of your rights, and
you have to be willing to waive those rights if, in
fact, you want to speak to us.@
There was, I would say, probably easily 5 to 10
minutes of conversation for him to understand that,
you know, we would listen to whatever he had to
say. We were willing to talk to him as long as he
wanted to talk to us, but that, in fact, he needed to
understand his Miranda Rights, and we were not
going to violate those and he had to, in fact, waive
those.
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[DEFENSE
COUNSEL]:
[WITNESS]:
[DEFENSE
COUNSEL]:
[WITNESS]:
[DEFENSE
COUNSEL]:
[WITNESS]:
So you continued to talk to [appellant]? There
was never a break in communication between
you and [appellant] when he invoked his right to
remain silent, was there?
[Appellant] continued to talk to us.
There was never a break in communication
between you and [appellant] and [Cpl.] Bachtell
once he invoked his right to remain silent, correct?
[Appellant] continued to speak to [Cpl.] Bachtell
and myself as I was writing, ADeclined to be
interviewed.@
I=m asking this a third time. There was never a
break in communication between you and
[appellant] and Corporal Bachtell, correct?
No, there was not.
(Emphasis added).
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