SAN FRANCISCO — A 15-year-old who repeatedly asked to speak to his mother during a police interrogation didn’t invoke his Miranda right to be silent or get the help of a lawyer, the California Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
The juvenile had earlier waived his Miranda rights, but several times during the course of an hours-long police interrogation, he asked to speak to his mom. A Fourth District Court of Appeal panel agreed with him that the statements shouldn’t have been admitted at trial because the police should have stopped the interrogation after he asked for his mother.
