Is a reasonable person in a reasonable position to end their questioning and leave the questioning?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Vasquez, B265987 (Cal. App. 2017):
circumstances surrounding the interrogation, and it must independently decide whether, given those circumstances, 'a reasonable person in [the] defendant's position would have felt free to end the questioning and leave' [citation]." (Ibid.; People v. Kopatz (2015) 61 Cal.4th 62, 80.)
1. Defendant's statements to Officer Lopez
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