United States v. Lanni

COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge. This appeal followed a conditional plea of guilty to a charge of embezzlement from a federally insured credit union in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 657. In entering the plea, under Fed. R. Crim. P. 11(a)(2), defendant-appellant reserved the right to appeal the denial of her motion to suppress statements made to FBI agents during an interview at her home. The sole issue is whether the district court erred in ruling, after a suppression hearing, that no Miranda warnings were necessary, because defendant was not ""in custody."" Although viewing this as a close case, we affirm. A district court's findings in a suppression hearing are binding on appeal unless clearly erroneous, and we will uphold the district court's denial of a motion to suppress if any reasonable view of the evidence supports it. United States v. Stanley, 915 F.2d 54, 57 (1st Cir. 1990); United States v. Masse, 816 F.2d 805, 809 n.4 (1st Cir. 1987). In sketching the underlying events of this case, we therefore select, where different versions of what happened were given, those facts favorable to the government.