9th Cir.
10-15044

The court of appeals affirmed a district court judgment. The court held that a California appellate did not unreasonably misapply Miranda law when it determined that a defendant was not “in custody” for Miranda purposes where she could reasonably could have understood herself to be free to ignore police inquiries and leave a police station after she was detained in a locked police vehicle during authorities’ search of her home and then taken at night to the station for several hours of questioning.