No. 25-6520

Steven George Morgan v. United States

Lower Court: Eleventh Circuit
Docketed: 2026-01-08
Status: Pending
Type: IFP
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP
Tags: constitutional-rights fifth-amendment interrogation involuntary-statements miranda-rights police-deception
Latest Conference: N/A
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether police deception that explicitly disavows the interrogative nature of
questioning—specifically, an officer's false promise that she is not trying to
interrogate the suspect or ask him any questions about the case—renders a suspect's
subsequent statements involuntary under the Fifth Amendment when made
immediately after the suspect invokes Miranda rights, thereby requiring suppression
of those statements and their fruits.

2. Whether courts conducting a totality-of-circumstances voluntariness analysis
must distinguish between permissible police misrepresentations of fact and
constitutionally impermissible misrepresentations that negate the legal
consequences of waiving Fifth Amendment rights, particularly when an officer
affirmatively contradicts warnings just given about a suspect's right to remain silent
and the use of statements against him.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether police deception that explicitly disavows the interrogative nature of an officer's false promise renders a suspect's subsequent statements involuntary under the Fifth Amendment when made immediately after the suspect invokes Miranda rights, thereby requiring suppression of those statements and their fruits

Docket Entries

2026-02-27
Motion of United States for an extension of time submitted.
2026-02-02
Response Requested. (Due March 4, 2026)
2026-01-22
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/20/2026.
2026-01-16
Waiver of United States of right to respond submitted.
2026-01-16
Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
2026-01-05
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due February 9, 2026)

Attorneys

Steven Morgan
Michael CarusoFederal Public Defender's Office, Petitioner
United States
D. John SauerSolicitor General, Respondent