ADMISSIONS AND CONFESSIONS

Admissions and Confessions

Admissions and Confessions

Introduction

A clever and constitutionally suspect interrogation technique is gaining acceptance among law enforcement agencies across the country. The intentional two-part interrogation technique entails questioning a custodial suspect without Miranda warnings in order to elicit incriminating statements, then providing Miranda warnings and eliciting the same statements again.

As a result of some noted cases of police abuse during interrogations of criminal suspects, the U.S. Supreme Court issued several opinions designed to curtail such abuse. The 1966 landmark case of Miranda v. Arizona dealt with “the admissibility of statements obtained from an individual who is subjected to custodial ...