Arie Redeker v. D. Neven

• Court: Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• Decided: March 21, 2019
• Docket: 17-16917
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

FILED NOT FOR PUBLICATION MAR 21 2019 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

ARIE ROBERT REDEKER, No. 17-16917

Petitioner-Appellant, D.C. No. 2:12-cv-00397-APG-GWF v.

D. W. NEVEN; ATTORNEY GENERAL MEMORANDUM* FOR THE STATE OF NEVADA,

Respondents-Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Andrew P. Gordon, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 14, 2019 San Francisco, California

Before: SCHROEDER, O’SCANNLAIN, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.

Petitioner Arie Redeker was convicted in Nevada state court of second

degree murder and now appeals the district court’s denial of his habeas petition

after it found Redeker was not in custody for the purposes of a possible Miranda

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. violation, and that even if Redeker had been in custody, he failed to establish any

constitutional violation.

As a preliminary matter, the Government argues that the Nevada Supreme

Court’s decision was entitled to deference under the Antiterrorism and Effective

Death Penalty Act of 1996 (“AEDPA”). We need not decide that issue because the

district court, exercising de novo review, decided there was no custodial

interrogation, so the standard of review is not material in this case. Also, we need

not decide whether Redeker was in custody during the hours he spent in his front

yard as argued by Redeker, or under arrest in the police station, as urged by the

dissenting opinion in the Nevada Supreme Court, because even assuming there was

a Miranda violation before Redeker was given his Miranda rights, there was no

prejudice.

Redeker voluntarily admitted to the crime after being administered his

Miranda warnings. Detective Hardy took the necessary steps to ensure that

Redeker understood the import and effect of the Miranda warning. See Missouri v.

Seibert, 542 U.S. 600, 622 (2004) (Kennedy, J., concurring); see also United States

v. Williams, 435 F.3d 1148, 1157–58 (9th Cir. 2006) (holding that Justice

Kennedy’s concurring opinion sets forth the controlling rule in Seibert). Redeker’s

unambiguous, affirmative answers demonstrate he recognized the import and effect

2 of the Miranda warning. See Reyes v. Lewis, 833 F.3d 1001, 1027 (9th Cir. 2016).

Thus, the district court correctly concluded that Redeker’s post-Miranda

statements were admissible because Detective Hardy did not deliberately withhold

the Miranda warning, and Redeker voluntarily admitted to the crime. See

Williams, 435 F.3d at 1158.

AFFIRMED.