No. 19-8782

Lisa Graham v. Alabama

Lower Court: Alabama
Docketed: 2020-06-22
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: due-process fifth-amendment functional-equivalent-interrogation marital-communications-privilege miranda-warnings pereira-v-united-states reasonable-expectation-of-privacy wolfle-v-united-states
Latest Conference: 2020-09-29
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Can a court, consistent with Wolfle and its progeny, utilize the "reasonable expectation of privacy" doctrine to defeat the marital communications privilege where the conversation between a party and her spouse was "intended to be confidential"?

2. Does self-initiated third-party questioning aimed at getting a suspect "to tell the truth," surreptitiously recorded by the police, constitute the "functional equivalent" of an un-Mirandized interrogation, as set forth in Arizona v. Mauro, 481 U.S. 520 (1987), and Rhode Island v. Innis, 446 U.S. 291 (1980), in violation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the marital communications privilege can be defeated by the 'reasonable expectation of privacy' doctrine

Docket Entries

2020-10-05
Petition DENIED.
2020-09-10
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2020.
2020-08-21
Brief of respondent State of Alabama in opposition filed.
2020-07-16
Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including August 21, 2020.
2020-07-14
Motion to extend the time to file a response from July 22, 2020 to August 21, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
2020-06-15
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due July 22, 2020)

Attorneys

Lisa Graham
Angela Leigh Setzer — Petitioner
State of Alabama
Audrey JordanAlabama Attorney General, Respondent