United States v. Patane

Samuel Patane (defendant) was arrested for allegedly violating a restraining order and separately suspected of illegally possessing a gun; when an officer began giving Miranda warnings, Patane cut him off claiming he already knew his rights, and when the officer then asked about the gun, Patane reluctantly let the officer seize it. Patane moved to suppress the gun as the fruit of his unwarned statement; the district court suppressed it on unrelated probable-cause grounds, and the appellate court, after reversing that ruling, still upheld suppression based on Patane's original Miranda argument.