Maryland v. Shatzer, No. 08–680, __ U.S. __ (Feb. 24, 2010)

Adopts a brightline rule that a fourteen-day break in Miranda custody ends the presumption of involuntariness established in Edwards v. Arizona for responses to police-initiated questioning after a subject has invoked the right to have Miranda counsel present during interrogation; a subject incarcerated for an unrelated crime is not in Miranda custody for purposes of this fourteen-day rule.

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Presley v. Georgia, No. 09-5270, __ U.S. __ (Jan. 19, 2010)

Defendant’s Sixth Amendment public trial right requires that jury selection be open to the public.

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Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, No. 07-591, __ U.S. __ (June 25, 2009)

Admission of government lab technicians’ sworn “certificates of analysis” that substance taken from defendant was cocaine violated defendant’s Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause right; the certificates were “affidavits” and within the “core class of testimonial statements” defined in Crawford v. Washington.

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