However, the test involves no consideration of the particular suspect’s “actual mindset.” Yarborough v. Alvarado, 541 U. S. 652, 667. When J. D. B. asked what a secure custody order was, DiCostanzo explained that “it’s where you get sent to juvenile detention before court.” Id., at 112a. Argued March 23, 2011—Decided June 16, 2011 Police stopped and questioned petitioner J. D. B., a 13-year-old, sev-enth-grade student, upon seeing him near the site of two home break-ins. This was the second time that police questioned J. D. B. in the span of a week. Yet the Miranda custody standard has never accounted for the personal characteristics of these or any other individual defendants. coa20-346 filed 20 april 2021 no. Alternatively, what if the police know or should know that the suspect is “a college-educated man with law school training”? 1214. because he was not given a Miranda warning were denied on the grounds that J.D.B. In such a case, furnishing this advice in a form calculated to be unintelligible to the suspect would be tantamount to failing to provide the advice at all. J.D.B. Today’s decision shifts the Miranda custody determination from a one-size-fits-all reasonable-person test into an inquiry that must account for at least one individualized characteristic—age—that is thought to correlate with sus-ceptibility to coercive pressures. In other words, a child’s age differs from other personal characteristics that, even when known to police, have no objectively discernible relationship to a reasonable person’s understanding of his freedom of action. Take a fairly typical case in which today’s holding may make a difference. this Court in Miranda adopted a set of prophylactic mea-sures designed to safeguard the constitutional guarantee against self-incrimination. The suspect in this case was a 13 year old boy who was Precisely because childhood yields objective conclusions like those we have drawn ourselves—among others, that children are “most susceptible to influence,” Eddings, 455 U. S., at 115, and “outside pressures,” Roper, 543 U. S., at 569—considering age in the custody analysis in no way involves a determination of how youth “subjectively affect[s] the mindset” of any particular child, Brief for Respondent 14. J. D. B. was a 13-year-old student attending Smith Middle School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina when he was taken out of class by a uniformed police officer and questioned. Eventually J. D. B. wrote a statement, at DiCostanzo’s request. The assistant principal urged J. D. B. to “do the right thing,” warning J. D. B. that “the truth always comes out in the end.” App. The same “wide basis of community experience” that makes it possible, as an objective matter, “to determine what is to be expected” of children in other contexts, Restatement (Second) of Torts §283A, at 15; see supra, at 10, and n. 6, likewise makes it possible to know what to expect of children subjected to police questioning. During the trial, attempts to suppress the statements given by J.D.B. of age from voting, serving on juries, or marrying without parental consent”). Based on the parties' consent, their representations, and in the court's discretion, the request for consolidation is GRANTED. Miranda greatly simplified matters by requiring police to give suspects standard warnings before commencing any custodial interrogation. Petitioner J. D. B. was a 13-year-old, seventh-grade student attending class at Smith Middle School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina when he was removed from his classroom by a uniformed police officer, escorted to a closed-door conference room, and questioned by police for at least half an hour. For example, in Berkemer v. McCarty, supra, police officers conducting a traffic stop questioned a man who had been drinking and smoking marijuana before he was pulled over. Alito, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Roberts, C. J., and Scalia and Thomas, JJ., joined. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA ROGER EARL COLEY, Plaintiff, v. FRANK L. PERRY, et al., Defendants. ) 3:21-mc-059-rjc-dck in re all assets in merrill edge account *7700, such account held in the name of maurice kamgaing; and all assets in merrill edge account *7t50, such account held in the name of apiagne, inc. 2005) (“[W]hile minor children have the right to acquire and own property, they are considered incapable of property management” (footnote omitted)); 2 J. Kent, Commentaries on American Law *78–*79, *90 (G. Comstock ed., 11th ed. v. North Carolina, 564 U.S. 261 (2011), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that age and mental status is relevant when determining police custody for Miranda purposes, overturning its prior ruling from seven years before. But not all police questioning of minors takes place in schools. A North Carolina boy identified as J.D.B. Syllabus. In fact, were the court precluded from taking J. D. B.’s youth into account, it would be forced to evaluate the circumstances here through the eyes of a reasonable adult, when some objective circumstances surrounding an interrogation at school are specific to children. . . Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote the opinion for the Court. Time and again, this Court has drawn these commonsense conclusions for itself. . The Court holds that age must be taken into account when it “was known to the officer at the time of the interview,” or when it “would have been objectively apparent” to a reasonable officer. In other words, how would a reasonable adult understand his situation, after being removed from a seventh-grade social studies class by a uniformed school resource officer; being encouraged by his assistant principal to “do the right thing”; and being warned by a police investigator of the prospect of juvenile detention and separation from his guardian and primary caretaker? But the whole point of the custody analysis is to determine whether, given the circumstances, “a reasonable person [would] have felt he or she was … at liberty to terminate the interrogation and leave.” Keohane, 516 U. S., at 112. voluntary confessions, the Miranda Court set down rigid standards that often require courts to ignore personal characteristics that may be highly relevant to a particular suspect’s actual susceptibility to police pressure. In negligence suits, for instance, where liability turns on what an objectively reasonable person would do in the circumstances, “[a]ll American jurisdictions accept the idea that a person’s childhood is a relevant circumstance” to be considered. Like the negligence standard, they do not require on-the-spot judgments by the police. It is, however, a reality that courts cannot simply ignore. J.D.B. of Oral Arg. See id., at 670–671, 686 S. E. 2d, at 139. as Amici Curiae 13–14, n. 7. A California court in Beheler had nonetheless distinguished Mathiason because the police knew that Beheler “had been drinking earlier in the day” and was “emotionally distraught.” 463 U. S., at 1124–1125. Stansbury, supra, at 323 (“[C]ustody depends on the objective circumstances of the interrogation, not on the subjective views harbored by either the interrogating officers or the person being questioned”). Restatement (Third) of Torts §10, Comment b, p. 117 (2005); see also id., Reporters’ Note, pp. ibid. more troubling—and recent studies suggest, all the more acute—when the subject of custodial interrogation is a juvenile. In fact, in many cases involving juvenile suspects, the custody analysis would be nonsensical absent some consideration of the suspect’s age. The court adjudicated him delinquent, and the North Carolina Court of Appeals and State Supreme Court affirmed. A child’s age is far “more than a chronological fact.” Eddings v. Oklahoma, 455 U. S. 104, 115. They are overinclusive to the extent that they provide a windfall to the most hardened and savvy of suspects, who often have no need for Miranda’s protections. . IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA JONATHAN TORREY DUNCAN, Plaintiff, v. WILLIAM T. SCHATZMAN, et al., Defendants. ) It is a fact that “generates commonsense conclusions about behavior and perception.” Alvarado, 541 U. S., at 674 (Breyer, J., dissenting). 5–8. and this inability continues, in contemplation of law, until the infant has attained the age of [21]”); 1 Blackstone *465 (“It is generally true, that an infant can neither aliene his lands, nor do any legal act, nor make a deed, nor indeed any manner of contract, that will bind him”); Roper v. Simmons, 543 U. S. 551, 569 (2005) (“In recognition of the comparative immaturity and irresponsibility of juveniles, almost every State prohibits those under 18 years The test, in other words, involves no consideration of the “actual mindset” of the particular suspect subjected to police questioning. A child’s age is far “more than a chronological fact.” Eddings v. Oklahoma, 455 U. S. 104, 115 (1982); accord, Gall v. United States, 552 U. S. 38, 58 (2007); Roper v. Simmons, 543 U. S. 551, 569 (2005); Johnson v. Texas, 509 U. S. 350, 367 (1993). California v. Beheler, 463 U. S. 1121, 1125 (1983) (per curiam) (internal quotation marks omitted). [Footnote 6] The totality of these Consider, for example, a 60-year-old judge attempting to make a custody determination through the eyes of a hypothetical, average 15-year-old. appealed, and the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari. DiCostanzo only then informed J. D. B. that he could refuse to answer the investigator’s questions and that he was free to leave. As an initial matter, the difficulties that the Court’s standard introduces will likely yield little added protection for most juvenile defendants. The defendant’s education is another personal characteristic that may generate “conclusions about behavior and perception.” Ante, at 9 (internal quotation marks omitted). But Miranda’s procedural safeguards exist precisely because the voluntariness test is an inadequate barrier when custodial interrogation is at stake. Upon arrival, DiCostanzo informed the uniformed police officer on detail to the school (a so-called school resource officer), the assistant principal, and an administrative intern that he was there to question J. D. B. about the break-ins. In addition, many of the concerns that petitioner raises regarding the application of the Miranda custody rule to minors can be accommodated by considering the unique circumstances present when minors are questioned in school. See Brief for Petitioner 10–11 (reciting at length the factors petitioner believes to be relevant to the custody determination here, including the fact that petitioner was removed from class by a police officer, that the interview took place in a school conference room, and that a uniformed officer and a vice principal were present). Only those interrogations that occur while a suspect is in police custody, however, “heighte[n] the risk” that statements obtained are not the product of the suspect’s free choice. in similar circumstances”). Upon arriving at the school, the investigator informed the uniformed police officer on detail at the school and members of the school's administration. A police investigator visited J.D.B. Although the State suggests that the “record is unclear as to who brought J. D. B. to the conference room, and the trial court made no factual findings on this specific point,” Brief for Respondent 3, n. 1, the State agreed at the certiorari stage that “the SRO [school resource officer] escorted petitioner” to the room, Brief in Opposition 3. Juvenile Law Center filed two amicus briefs in the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of J.D.B, a 13-year-old seventh grade middle school student who was removed from his classroom by four adults, including a uniformed police officer and school resource officer, and questioned in a closed school conference room about alleged delinquent activity off school grounds. is neither. But if it is, then the weakness is an inescapable consequence of the Miranda Court’s decision to supplement the more holistic voluntariness requirement with a one-size-fits-all prophylactic rule. I do not dispute that many suspects who are under 18 will be more susceptible to police pressure than the average adult. DMS/Documents/1211996548.53/Polling%20results%20report.pdf. at school, where he was interrogated by the investigator, a uniformed police officer, and school officials. That risk is all the The uniformed officer interrupted the class J. D. B. was in and escorted him to a school conference room, where J. D. B. was subsequently questioned by the investigator, police officer, and members of the school's administration for 30 to 45 minutes. (acknowledging the “occasiona[l] … difficulty” police officers confront in determining when a suspect has been taken into custody). And today’s holding is not needed to protect the constitutional rights of minors who are questioned by the police. If Miranda’s rigid, one-size-fits-all standards fail to account for the unique needs of juveniles, the response should be to rigorously apply the constitutional rule against coercion to ensure that the rights of minors are protected. The Miranda custody determination, by contrast, must be made in the first instance by police officers in the course of an investigation that may require quick decisionmaking. north carolina. See Dickerson v. United States, 530 U. S. 428, 444 (2000). There is, however, an even more fundamental flaw with the State’s plea for clarity and the dissent’s singular focus on simplifying the analysis: Not once have we excluded from the custody analysis a circumstance that we determined was relevant and objective, simply to make the fault line between custodial and noncustodial “brighter.” Indeed, were the guiding concern clarity and nothing else, the custody test would presumably ask only whether the suspect had been placed under formal arrest. J. D. B. v . Two juvenile petitions were filed against J. D. B. [Footnote 11] These defendants’ reactions to police pressure are unlikely to be much different from the reaction of a typical 18-year-old in similar circumstances. Although citation to social science and cognitive science authorities is unnecessary to establish these commonsense propositions, the literature confirms what experience bears out. Decided June 20, 1966. Appeal by defendant from order entered 24 February 2020 by Judge Deborah Brown in … 363 U.S. 697. We cannot agree. Ibid. Pp. Judges “simply need the common sense,” the Court assures, “to know that a 7-year-old is not a 13-year-old and neither is an adult.” Ante, at 17. is different.” Ante, at 12. No. (1997) (same); In re Joshua David C., 116 Md. The law has historically reflected the same assumption that children characteristically lack the capacity to exercise mature judgment and possess only an incomplete ability to understand the world around them. See Tr. As we have repeatedly emphasized, whether a suspect is “in custody” is an objective inquiry. The North Carolina Supreme Court held, over two dissents, that J. D. B. was not in custody when he confessed, “declin[ing] to extend the test for custody to include consideration of the age … of an individual subjected to questioning by police.” In re J. D. B. , 363 N. C. 664, 672, 686 S. E. 2d 135, 140 (2009). It stems from the 1966 Miranda v. Arizona case, and is based primarily on the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. imposes”). Yarborough v. Alvarado was also cited, where the Court wrote that a child's age "generates commonsense conclusions about behavior and perception". And advice by the police that a suspect is or is not free to leave at will has always been regarded as a circumstance regarding the conditions of the interrogation that must be taken into account in making the Miranda custody determination. Decided June 20, 1960. limitations on a child's ability to marry without parental consent). Petitioner and the Court attempt to show that this task is not unmanageable by pointing out that age is taken into account in other legal contexts. No less than other facets of Miranda, the threshold requirement that the suspect be in “custody” is “designed to give clear guidance to the police.” Yarborough v. Alvarado, 541 U. S. 652, 668, 669 (2004). cers nor the school administrators contacted J. D. B.’s grandmother. P.I. The law has historically reflected the same assumption that children characteristically lack the capacity to exercise mature judgment and possess only an incomplete ability to understand the world around them. [Footnote 8] This is not to say that a child’s age will be a determinative, or even a significant, factor in every case. J.D.B. 466. B. Berkemer, 468 U. S., at 442, and n. 35 (“[O]nly relevant inquiry is how a reasonable man in the suspect’s position would have understood his situation”). Relying on our statements that the objective custody test is “designed to give clear guidance to the police,” Alvarado, 541 U. S., at 668, the State next argues that a child’s age must be excluded from the analysis in order to preserve clarity. In a summary reversal, this Court explained that the fact “[t]hat the police knew more” personal information about Beheler than they did about Mathiason was “irrelevant.” Id., at 1125. United States v. Chalan, 812 F. 2d 1302, 1307 (CA10 1987) (rejecting claim that Native American suspect was “in custody” for Miranda purposes because, by custom, obedience to tribal authorities was “expected of all tribal members”). Among the most frequently mentioned factors were the defendant’s education, physical condition, intelligence, and mental health. Questioning began with small talk—discussion of sports and J. D. B.’s family life. Justia makes no guarantees or warranties that the annotations are accurate or reflect the current state of law, and no annotation is intended to be, nor should it be construed as, legal advice. Cf. P. 18. A uniformed police officer on detail to the school took J. D. B. from his classroom to a closed-door conference room, where police and school administrators questioned him for at least 30 minutes. See United States v. Beraun-Panez, 812 F. 2d 578, 581, modified 830 F. 2d 127 (CA9 1987) (“reasonable person who was an alien”); In re Jorge D., 202 Ariz. 277, 280, 43 The question remains whether J. D. B. was in custody when police interrogated him. But the Court’s shift is fundamentally at odds with the clear prophylactic rules that Miranda has long enforced. Indeed, they are competent to do so even though an interrogation room lacks the “reflective atmosphere of a [jury] deliberation room,” post, at 15. IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NORTH CAROLINA 2021-NCCOA-168 No. Reviewing the question de novo today, we hold that so long as the child’s age was known to the officer at the time of police questioning, or would have been objectively apparent to a reasonable officer, its inclusion in the custody analysis is consistent with the objective nature of that test. There, the circumstances of the interrogation were “remarkably similar” to the facts of the Court’s earlier decision in Oregon v. Mathiason, 429 U. S. 492 (1977) (per curiam)—the suspect was “not placed under arrest,” he “voluntarily [came] to the police station,” and he was “allowed to leave unhindered by police after a brief interview.” 463 U. S., at 1123, 1121. Post, at 13. 3 Ibid. 41–42—is mistaken. A 16-year-old moves to suppress incriminating statements made prior to the administration of Miranda warnings. And an individual’s intelligence can also yield “conclusions” similar to those “we have drawn ourselves” in cases far afield of Miranda. The State and its amici contend that a child’s age has no place in the custody analysis, no matter how young the child subjected to police questioning. IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF NORTH CAROLINA 2021-NCCOA-164 No. Alito argued the decision shifted custody determination from a simple test to an inquiry that must account for individualized characteristics. J. D. B.’s public defender moved to suppress his statements and the evidence derived therefrom, arguing that suppression was necessary because J. D. B. had been “interrogated by police in a custodial setting without being afforded Miranda warning[s],” App. The primary objection of the dissent was that the ruling of the majority was inconsistent with one of the main justifications for the Miranda rule: the need for a clear rule that is easily applied in all cases. This approach does not undermine the basic principle that an interrogating officer’s unarticulated, internal thoughts are never—in and of themselves—objective circumstances of an interrogation. 19 osp 3469 alejandro asbun, petitioner, v. north carolina department of health and human services, respondent. In my judgment, that presumption cannot be overcome here. He also wrote a statement, at DiCostanzo’s request. Neither one of them was in custody under the objective reasonable-person standard. https://www.uscourts.gov/.../facts-and-case-summary-jdb-v-north-carolina The police and courts must “examine all of the circumstances surrounding the interrogation,” Stansbury v. California, 511 U. S. 318, 322, including those that “would have affected how a reasonable person” in the suspect’s position “would perceive his or her freedom to leave,” id., at 325. It is obvious, however, that application of the Court’s new rule demands much more than this. Five days later, after a digital camera matching one of the stolen Amici on behalf of J. D. B. question whether children of all ages can comprehend Miranda warnings and suggest that additional procedural safeguards may be necessary to protect their Miranda rights. Syllabus. . 's statements and the evidence derived from them, arguing that J. D. B. had been interrogated in police custody without the required Miranda warnings. capacity for effective choice,” were relevant in determining whether the confession was coerced or compelled. See id., at 430–431 (officers are not required to “make guesses” as to circumstances “unknowable” to them at the time); Alvarado, 541 U. S., at 668 (officers are under no duty “to consider … contingent psychological factors when deciding when suspects should be advised of their Miranda rights”). California v. Beheler, supra, is another useful example. Ante, at 9 (relying on Haley, 332 U. S., at 599 (plurality opinion), and Gallegos, 370 U. S., at 54). And this judge may or may not have been an average 15-year-old. [Footnote 1] There, J. D. B. was met by DiCostanzo, the assistant principal, and the administrative intern. ucr/cius2008/data/table_38.html (all Internet materials as visited June 8, 2011, and available in Clerk of Court’s case file) (indicating that less than 30% of juvenile arrests in the United States are of suspects who are under 15). Suppose the police learn (or should have learned, see ante, at 11) that a suspect they wish to question is a recent immigrant from a country in which dire consequences often befall any person who dares to attempt to cut short any meeting with the police. Presumably such a case would involve a situation in which a blind defendant was given “a typed document advising him that he [was] free to leave.” See Brief for Juvenile Law Center as Amicus Curiae 23. A divided panel of the North Carolina Court of Appeals affirmed. Third, in cases like the one now before us, where the suspect is especially young, courts applying the constitutional voluntariness standard can take special care to ensure that incriminating statements were not obtained through coercion. Indeed, the pressure of custodial interrogation is so immense that it “can induce a frighteningly high percentage of people to confess to crimes they never committed.” Corley v. United States, 556 U. S. __, __ (2009) (slip op., at 16) (citing Drizin & Leo, The Problem of False Confessions in the Post-DNA World, 82 N. C. L. Rev. See Brief for Petitioner 5; Brief for Respondent 5. The State and its amici offer numerous reasons that courts must blind themselves to a juvenile defendant’s age. Before beginning, they did not give J.D.B. § 636. Indeed, there are already lower court decisions that take this approach. The Court wrote that consideration of age involved no consideration of the specific mindset of the individual. See, e.g., 1 E. Farnsworth, Contracts §4.4, p. 379, and n. 1 (1990) (“Common law courts early announced the prevailing view that a minor’s contract is ‘voidable’ at the instance of the minor” (citing 8 W. Holdsworth, History of English Law 51 (1926))); 1 D. Kramer, Legal Rights of Children §8.1, p. 663 (rev. It is beyond dispute that children will often feel bound to submit to police questioning when an adult in the same circumstances would feel free to leave. App. Dillon v. 14–18. State v. Meader. Police stopped and questioned petitioner J. D. B., a 13-year-old, seventh-grade student, upon seeing him near the site of two home break-ins. v. North Carolina, 564 U.S. 261 (2011), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that age and mental status is relevant when determining police custody for Miranda purposes, overturning its prior ruling from seven years before. In the same vein, the State and its amici protest that the “effect of … age on [the] perception of custody is internal,” Brief for Respondent 20, or “psychological,” U. S. Brief 21. Police must make in-the-moment judgments as to when to administer Miranda warnings. Eddings, 455 U. S., at 115–116. Federal laws apply in North Carolina as they do across all 50 states. The Court also relies on North Carolina’s concession at oral argument that a court could take into account a suspect’s blindness as a factor relevant to the Miranda custody determination. was a 13-year-old student enrolled in special educationclasses whom police had suspected of committing two robberies. The judge will not have the luxury of merely saying: “It is common sense that a 16-year-old is not an 18-year-old. In re J. D. B., 363 N. C. 664, 668, 686 S. E. 2d 135, 137 (2009). Indeed, this is the very reason that we ask whether the objective circumstances “add up to custody,” Keohane, 516 U. S., at 113, instead of evaluating the circumstances one by one. Forty-five years of personal experience and societal change separate this judge from the days when he or she was 15 years old. the Fourteenth Amendment." The suspect’s age also received prominent attention in several cases, e.g., Gallegos v. Colorado, 370 U. S. 49, 54 (1962), especially when the suspect was a “mere child.” Haley v. Ohio, 332 U. S. 596, 599 (1948) (plurality opinion). [Footnote 9] Is this really less relevant than the fact that a suspect is a month or so away from his 18th birthday? In many cases, courts will presumably have to make findings as to whether a particular suspect had a sufficiently youthful look to alert a reasonable officer to the possibility that the suspect was under 18, or whether a reasonable officer would have recognized that a suspect’s I. D. was a fake. As has often been recognized, this gain in clarity and administrability is one of Miranda’s “principal advantages.” Berkemer v. McCarty, 468 U. S. 420, 430 (1984); see also Missouri v. Seibert, 542 U. S. 600, 622 (2004) (Kennedy, J., con-curring in judgment). ; see also Alvarado, supra, at 668, 669 (experience with law enforcement irrelevant to Miranda custody analysis “as a de novo matter”). The opinion cited Stansbury v. California, where the Court held that a child's age "would have affected how a reasonable person" in the suspect's position "would perceive his or her freedom to leave". Dissatisfied with the highly fact-specific constitutional rule against the admission of in- “Two discrete inquiries are essential to the determination: first, what were the circumstances surrounding the interrogation; and second, given those circumstances, would a reasonable person have felt he or she was at liberty to terminate the interrogation and leave. This the Court fails to do. "[7] Professor Stephen Saltzburg of George Washington University agreed that the ruling would pressure police to adopt a strategy of "When in doubt, give Miranda warnings", but also opined that it would make little practical difference to young people facing police questioning. See supra, at 7; Stansbury v. California, 511 U. S. 318, 323 (1994) (per curiam). By limiting analysis to objective circumstances, the test avoids burdening police with the task of anticipating each suspect’s idiosyncrasies and divining how those particular traits affect that suspect’s subjective state of mind. Pp. Recognizing that the inherently coercive nature of custodial interrogation “blurs the line between voluntary and involuntary statements,” Dickerson, 530 U. S., at 435, The court determined that a reasonable adult would've felt free to leave; consequently, J.D.B. Safeguarding the constitutional rights of minors does not require the extreme makeover of Miranda that today’s decision may portend. was convicted, placed on 12 months’ probation, and ordered to pay restitution. See id., at 479. So long as the child’s age was known to the officer at the time of the interview, or would have been objectively apparent to any reasonable officer, including age as part of the custody analysis requires officers neither to consider circumstances “unknowable” to them, Berkemer, 468 U. S., at 430, nor to “anticipat[e] the frailties or idiosyncrasies” of the particular suspect whom they question, Alvarado, 541 U. S., at 662 (internal quotation marks omitted). Surely this is incorrect. Each alleged one count of larceny and one count of breaking and entering. A Miranda warning is an explanation of a suspect's rights that must be given by law enforcement before interrogation. Pp. 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